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 Iceland and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Inner City to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cecil Taylor,
Ohio Players,
Fear,
Joensuu 1685,
Sarah Menescal,
Kerri Chandler,
Kool Moe Dee,
The United States of America,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scion,
Byron Stingily,
Brand Nubian,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
D'Angelo,
The Move,
Visage,
Rites of Spring,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gong,
Duran Duran,
Black Sheep,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pole,
Eden Ahbez,
Mars,
The Alarm Clocks,
Siglo XX,
Young Marble Giants,
Matthew Halsall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ossler,
Ponytail,
Gang Green,
Lindisfarne,
Magazine,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Yellowson,
Joe Finger,
John Cale,
Royal Trux,
Wally Richardson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Whodini,
Sällskapet,
Symarip,
Prince Buster,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Public Image Ltd.,
OOIOO,
Todd Rundgren,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Clear Light,
The Doors,
Excepter,
kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive.
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.