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 Iraq and from Cairo.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Steve Hackett,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Can,
The Vogues,
The Raincoats,
Pharoah Sanders,
Frankie Knuckles,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Youth Brigade,
Chrome,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
World's Most,
A Certain Ratio,
Tropical Tobacco,
Roger Hodgson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lower 48,
Qualms,
Lou Reed,
Liliput,
Oneida,
Bizarre Inc.,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Minutemen,
Alton Ellis,
Harry Pussy,
KRS-One,
the Normal,
Nation of Ulysses,
MDC,
Bobby Sherman,
Masters at Work,
Sparks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Popol Vuh,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Minny Pops,
Mars,
Television Personalities,
China Crisis,
Crash Course in Science,
Aaron Thompson,
Monks,
New York Dolls,
Charles Mingus,
Eddi Front,
Warsaw,
Ultimate Spinach,
OOIOO,
The Walker Brothers,
H. Thieme,
Chris & Cosey,
Juan Atkins,
Newcleus,
D'Angelo,
The Detroit Cobras,
Peter and Kerry,
Wings,
Babytalk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.