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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Taipei.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Soulsonic Force to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter & Gordon,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ohio Players,
the Swans,
Sun City Girls,
Faraquet,
Cybotron,
Tim Buckley,
The Buckinghams,
Second Layer,
UT,
Tom Boy,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Delta 5,
Pierre Henry,
Livin' Joy,
Dead Boys,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Invisible,
Dual Sessions,
The Fortunes,
Nas,
Blake Baxter,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Kinks,
The Dave Clark Five,
Joey Negro,
Sexual Harrassment,
Reuben Wilson,
The Searchers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Skaos,
Tubeway Army,
T.S.O.L.,
Jeru the Damaja,
Agitation Free,
Heaven 17,
The Mojo Men,
The Slackers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roy Ayers,
Derrick Morgan,
Motorama,
The Toasters,
Pantaleimon,
LL Cool J,
Ten City,
Goldenarms,
Rotary Connection,
Idris Muhammad,
Von Mondo,
Infiniti,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Black Dice,
Bobby Womack,
John Foxx,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.