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 Bhutan and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Glambeats Corp. to the rock 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Magma,
The Golliwogs,
Ultra Naté,
Jimmy McGriff,
La Düsseldorf,
Lungfish,
Peter and Kerry,
Gil Scott Heron,
Motorama,
Jandek,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bluetip,
Alison Limerick,
Monks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Sound,
Gong,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Index,
Erasure,
Cheater Slicks,
The Young Rascals,
Joe Smooth,
Groovy Waters,
Cybotron,
the Human League,
Black Sheep,
Public Image Ltd.,
Q and Not U,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eden Ahbez,
Amon Düül II,
Scan 7,
ABC,
The Moleskins,
Maurizio,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Remains,
Bad Manners,
Scientists,
The Red Krayola,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Q65,
The Fire Engines,
Dark Day,
Black Moon,
Bobby Sherman,
Donald Byrd,
X-Ray Spex,
Radio Birdman,
the Germs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Crispy Ambulance,
KRS-One,
Ice-T,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bob Dylan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pagans,
Gabor Szabo,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.