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 Peru and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 chamberlin 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 The United States of America to the crunk 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Angels of Light,
Massinfluence,
Lakeside,
Todd Rundgren,
Black Moon,
Flash Fearless,
Bauhaus,
The Trojans,
Chrome,
Neil Young,
The Monks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Cluster,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kas Product,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Crispy Ambulance,
Malaria!,
The Motions,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Wake,
Desert Stars,
The Saints,
X-101,
The Barracudas,
Derrick May,
Sun Ra,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mandrill,
La Düsseldorf,
Althea and Donna,
The Toasters,
OOIOO,
Carl Craig,
The Techniques,
Wally Richardson,
The Residents,
The Grass Roots,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Subhumans,
The Star Department,
Tubeway Army,
Junior Murvin,
Radiopuhelimet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vainqueur,
The Gun Club,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tears for Fears,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Slackers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Matthew Bourne,
Pantaleimon,
Accadde A,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.