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 Uruguay and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Shanghai.
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 guitar 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 Animal Collective to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Kool G Rap & DJ Polo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
The Stooges,
Derrick Morgan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Velvet Underground,
Alison Limerick,
Outsiders,
Slick Rick,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Gap Band,
Procol Harum,
Jawbox,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Music Machine,
Pantaleimon,
In Retrospect,
The Human League,
Silicon Teens,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Smog,
JFA,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gang Gang Dance,
Moebius,
Ultra Naté,
Negative Approach,
Kaleidoscope,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Saints,
Juan Atkins,
Livin' Joy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mars,
Camberwell Now,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Fire Engines,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Main Source,
Niagra,
Organ,
Depeche Mode,
Moss Icon,
Gabor Szabo,
The Kinks,
Rosa Yemen,
E-Dancer,
Joe Finger,
Duran Duran,
Gong,
Crime,
A Certain Ratio,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jeff Mills,
The Red Krayola,
Black Bananas,
Terry Callier,
Ronan,
Janne Schatter,
Saccharine Trust,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.