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 Ecuador and from Jakarta.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Soul II Soul to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
Barry Ungar,
Ten City,
DJ Style,
Yusef Lateef,
Porter Ricks,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soulsonic Force,
Ronan,
Tubeway Army,
The Kinks,
Moby Grape,
The Human League,
Schoolly D,
Leonard Cohen,
Blake Baxter,
Godley & Creme,
The Smiths,
Organ,
10cc,
Nico,
Connie Case,
The Busters,
Wire,
Robert Wyatt,
Popol Vuh,
Surgeon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Suicide,
Massinfluence,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Hashim,
Lebanon Hanover,
Warsaw,
FM Einheit,
Ossler,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Funkadelic,
Scion,
Bob Dylan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Procol Harum,
Clear Light,
Derrick Morgan,
Arcadia,
The New Christs,
Wally Richardson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sällskapet,
Masters at Work,
The Slackers,
The Gories,
Erykah Badu,
The Stooges,
Lou Reed,
Pantaleimon,
Rod Modell,
Sound Behaviour,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Neon Judgement,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.