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 Uganda and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron 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 One Last Wish to the grunge 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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
Kas Product,
Donny Hathaway,
The Remains,
Funkadelic,
Loose Ends,
Icehouse,
U.S. Maple,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rakim,
Lebanon Hanover,
Erykah Badu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Blackbyrds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Audionom,
Minny Pops,
Von Mondo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Peter & Gordon,
John Cale,
Unrelated Segments,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Camberwell Now,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Unwound,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Fortunes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kaleidoscope,
Radiopuhelimet,
Reuben Wilson,
Amazonics,
Intrusion,
The Star Department,
The Searchers,
The Monochrome Set,
The Last Poets,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Zapp,
Masters at Work,
Angry Samoans,
Rufus Thomas,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Zeros,
The Durutti Column,
Ten City,
Sex Pistols,
Chris Corsano,
The Doobie Brothers,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Residents,
Deepchord,
Eden Ahbez,
E-Dancer,
Ludus, Ludus, Ludus, Ludus.
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.