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 Ecuador and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer 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 Mo-Dettes to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Drexciya,
Yellowson,
Toni Rubio,
The Raincoats,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Spoonie Gee,
Bootsy Collins,
The Pretty Things,
DJ Sneak,
Brand Nubian,
Negative Approach,
Roxy Music,
The Barracudas,
The Searchers,
The Gories,
Barbara Tucker,
Andrew Hill,
Dawn Penn,
Model 500,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Grey Daturas,
Brothers Johnson,
Qualms,
Ultra Naté,
Scan 7,
Kenny Larkin,
Television,
Ronnie Foster,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Soft Cell,
Peter & Gordon,
Scrapy,
Darondo,
Joe Smooth,
Pagans,
Morten Harket,
E-Dancer,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jeru the Damaja,
Hashim,
Agitation Free,
Jandek,
Hoover,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
World's Most,
Roger Hodgson,
Tommy Roe,
The Red Krayola,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Fania All-Stars,
Aswad,
Minutemen,
Carl Craig,
Infiniti,
ABBA,
Swell Maps,
Joensuu 1685,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.