Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Mauritania and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Clear Light to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pantaleimon,
Adolescents,
Malaria!,
Minny Pops,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Skarface,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scion,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Scan 7,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lalann,
Soulsonic Force,
Organ,
Black Flag,
The Zeros,
Q and Not U,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pole,
Black Moon,
Joyce Sims,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
In Retrospect,
Don Cherry,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kerrie Biddell,
Funky Four + One,
Underground Resistance,
Faust,
Mo-Dettes,
The American Breed,
Magazine,
Faraquet,
John Lydon,
Piero Umiliani,
Arcadia,
Jerry's Kids,
Spoonie Gee,
Max Romeo,
The Happenings,
T. Rex,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scrapy,
Boredoms,
Neil Young,
Schoolly D,
Sam Rivers,
John Coltrane,
Easy Going,
Pulsallama,
Alice Coltrane,
David Axelrod,
The Black Dice,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.