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 Slovenia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 theremin 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 Yazoo to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ronnie Foster,
Gichy Dan,
Tears for Fears,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jerry's Kids,
Jacob Miller,
Chris Corsano,
Bootsy Collins,
Y Pants,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Grey Daturas,
Sam Rivers,
Gong,
The J.B.'s,
Darondo,
Fad Gadget,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Toni Rubio,
The Black Dice,
Lalo Schifrin,
Echospace,
Bobby Womack,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Evens,
Eurythmics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ultra Naté,
Unrelated Segments,
Slick Rick,
Heaven 17,
Masters at Work,
Marvin Gaye,
Soul Sonic Force,
Crime,
Underground Resistance,
Scientists,
Cluster,
Niagra,
Ossler,
Tres Demented,
Lucky Dragons,
David Bowie,
Symarip,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
One Last Wish,
ABBA,
Fluxion,
The Busters,
Procol Harum,
Television,
June Days,
The Blues Magoos,
Smog,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dennis Brown,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.