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 Serbia and from Hong Kong.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lalann to the funk 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
Yellowson,
Maurizio,
Bobby Sherman,
Moss Icon,
Fat Boys,
Lightning Bolt,
Adolescents,
The Dead C,
Joensuu 1685,
The Beau Brummels,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bang On A Can,
the Normal,
Michelle Simonal,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kerrie Biddell,
Technova,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Brick,
Unrelated Segments,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scan 7,
Gang of Four,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Laurel Aitken,
Skarface,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Godley & Creme,
Cymande,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Piero Umiliani,
One Last Wish,
10cc,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sixth Finger,
the Slits,
Chrome,
Rhythm & Sound,
Second Layer,
The Tremeloes,
Rapeman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bush Tetras,
The Techniques,
Traffic Nightmare,
Public Image Ltd.,
Massinfluence,
The Misunderstood,
Pantytec,
ABBA,
Sam Rivers,
Mad Mike,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roger Hodgson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.