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 Morocco and from Houston.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Doors to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba 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 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Severed Heads,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pole,
Mark Hollis,
Funkadelic,
Ponytail,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Archie Shepp,
Lee Hazlewood,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Litter,
T. Rex,
The Detroit Cobras,
Cameo,
Brothers Johnson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sixth Finger,
Neu!,
EPMD,
This Heat,
The Offenders,
Freddie Wadling,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nation of Ulysses,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Underground Resistance,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Blossom Toes,
Hardrive,
Colin Newman,
Fat Boys,
David McCallum,
Jesper Dahlback,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Albert Ayler,
Excepter,
Grauzone,
Iggy Pop,
The Red Krayola,
Moebius,
Hoover,
Swell Maps,
AZ,
Youth Brigade,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rekid,
The Saints,
Junior Murvin,
CMW,
The Velvet Underground,
The Blackbyrds,
Ultra Naté,
Sun Ra,
Trumans Water,
Das Ding,
Moby Grape,
10cc,
Joy Division,
Main Source,
Brand Nubian,
Shuggie Otis,
Heaven 17,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.