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 Russia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Accadde A to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
The Cure,
The Modern Lovers,
Mandrill,
New York Dolls,
The Gap Band,
The Trojans,
Faraquet,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sandy B,
Blancmange,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pole,
Von Mondo,
Radio Birdman,
Iggy Pop,
Little Man,
Television Personalities,
Boz Scaggs,
Schoolly D,
Bobby Byrd,
The Evens,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Goldenarms,
Dorothy Ashby,
DJ Style,
Gregory Isaacs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Gun Club,
Chris Corsano,
The Black Dice,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marvin Gaye,
D'Angelo,
Howard Jones,
Ludus,
Unwound,
E-Dancer,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
This Heat,
Whodini,
Altered Images,
Q65,
Fugazi,
The Associates,
The Walker Brothers,
The Five Americans,
The Mighty Diamonds,
New Order,
Avey Tare,
Inner City,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
MC5,
Gichy Dan,
MDC,
Cheater Slicks,
Spoonie Gee,
Matthew Bourne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.