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 San Marino and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lagos.
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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 cv313 to the grunge 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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Misunderstood,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marcia Griffiths,
Aural Exciters,
Delon & Dalcan,
World's Most,
The Leaves,
Soft Cell,
Joyce Sims,
Royal Trux,
Simply Red,
The Tremeloes,
MDC,
New Age Steppers,
Guru Guru,
Quando Quango,
Lebanon Hanover,
Adolescents,
Young Marble Giants,
Bluetip,
Pulsallama,
Arthur Verocai,
Aloha Tigers,
The Vogues,
the Slits,
The Slits,
Carl Craig,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Davy DMX,
Danielle Patucci,
Roxy Music,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Stooges,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Absolute Body Control,
Funkadelic,
Groovy Waters,
Suicide,
The American Breed,
Minutemen,
Saccharine Trust,
Main Source,
David Axelrod,
Lalann,
A Certain Ratio,
Procol Harum,
ABC,
Country Teasers,
Alison Limerick,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Crime,
Average White Band,
Connie Case,
Y Pants,
Chris & Cosey,
Lou Christie,
Janne Schatter,
Juan Atkins,
Jesper Dahlback,
David Bowie,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.