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 Vanuatu and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Crash Course in Science to the grime 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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All The Durutti Column tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba 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?
Amon Düül II,
Skriet,
Soulsonic Force,
Barry Ungar,
The Blues Magoos,
The Remains,
Underground Resistance,
Gichy Dan,
Glenn Branca,
The Velvet Underground,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sound Behaviour,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jawbox,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jacob Miller,
Bob Dylan,
Fad Gadget,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sister Nancy,
T.S.O.L.,
the Bar-Kays,
Dave Gahan,
Soul II Soul,
Rakim,
The Move,
Gil Scott Heron,
Crispy Ambulance,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Amon Düül,
Slave,
The Monochrome Set,
Ronan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Panda Bear,
Jandek,
Supertramp,
EPMD,
Andrew Hill,
Johnny Osbourne,
CMW,
Unwound,
Minor Threat,
Rosa Yemen,
Agent Orange,
Funky Four + One,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Moebius,
The Invisible,
Kevin Saunderson,
Deakin,
Funkadelic,
Niagra,
Livin' Joy,
The Doors,
The Real Kids,
Hot Snakes,
Magazine,
L. Decosne,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.