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 Mauritius and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kool Moe Dee to the grime 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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade. All the underground hits.
All Eric B and Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slave record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monks,
Sound Behaviour,
David Axelrod,
Derrick May,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Goldenarms,
The Fire Engines,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jesper Dahlback,
DJ Sneak,
June Days,
Max Romeo,
Television Personalities,
Deadbeat,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
U.S. Maple,
Scion,
the Sonics,
Royal Trux,
The Black Dice,
Pere Ubu,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Chrome,
Rakim,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
In Retrospect,
Bad Manners,
Amazonics,
Shuggie Otis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eric Copeland,
Banda Bassotti,
Neu!,
Bizarre Inc.,
Colin Newman,
cv313,
The Index,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Graham Central Station,
Pharoah Sanders,
Amon Düül II,
The Dave Clark Five,
Panda Bear,
the Bar-Kays,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gang Green,
Howard Jones,
Ronnie Foster,
Nirvana,
Roger Hodgson,
The Count Five,
Erasure,
Mad Mike,
Cecil Taylor,
Mary Jane Girls,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.