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 Latvia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 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 Hashim to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Yusef Lateef,
Q and Not U,
Black Flag,
Thompson Twins,
Kenny Larkin,
Model 500,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Todd Rundgren,
Joensuu 1685,
Young Marble Giants,
Terrestrial Tones,
E-Dancer,
Traffic Nightmare,
Graham Central Station,
Das Ding,
The Invisible,
Hoover,
Harmonia,
Rites of Spring,
Nik Kershaw,
Bobby Sherman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Peter and Kerry,
Rekid,
Radiohead,
Don Cherry,
Infiniti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Panda Bear,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Blossom Toes,
Gregory Isaacs,
10cc,
The Cosmic Jokers,
In Retrospect,
Bobby Womack,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Amazonics,
New York Dolls,
Nick Fraelich,
The Leaves,
Pagans,
Ash Ra Tempel,
MDC,
Jerry's Kids,
The J.B.'s,
Bootsy Collins,
The Dirtbombs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bang On A Can,
Chris & Cosey,
Pantytec,
Matthew Halsall,
Camberwell Now,
The Stooges,
Soft Cell,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Soft Machine,
Pulsallama,
Arcadia,
Marcia Griffiths,
Hardrive,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.