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 Singapore and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron 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 Make Up to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Gichy Dan,
The Cramps,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Happenings,
Zero Boys,
The Mummies,
ABBA,
Sun City Girls,
Minutemen,
The Doobie Brothers,
Goldenarms,
Junior Murvin,
Ten City,
Iggy Pop,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Thompson Twins,
Maurizio,
Cheater Slicks,
Jandek,
Darondo,
Harmonia,
Avey Tare,
The Moody Blues,
L. Decosne,
Easy Going,
Joe Finger,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Guru Guru,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nik Kershaw,
The J.B.'s,
Josef K,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ice-T,
Rufus Thomas,
Reuben Wilson,
The Birthday Party,
Niagra,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Kinks,
Todd Terry,
The Monochrome Set,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
John Coltrane,
New Order,
Bluetip,
Country Teasers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Vainqueur,
Sugar Minott,
The Doors,
Swans,
Kayak,
Juan Atkins,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.