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 France and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
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 arpeggiator 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 Spoonie Gee to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Misunderstood,
Gabor Szabo,
Pierre Henry,
The Dirtbombs,
The Grass Roots,
Tomorrow,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Youth Brigade,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ossler,
Nick Fraelich,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Maurizio,
Severed Heads,
Khruangbin,
Banda Bassotti,
The Moody Blues,
Angry Samoans,
Pere Ubu,
Fear,
Flash Fearless,
Desert Stars,
Johnny Osbourne,
Siglo XX,
Buzzcocks,
X-Ray Spex,
The Trojans,
Andrew Hill,
Eric Dolphy,
The United States of America,
Kas Product,
Alton Ellis,
Gastr Del Sol,
Nik Kershaw,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Alice Coltrane,
The Detroit Cobras,
10cc,
The Birthday Party,
48th St. Collective,
David McCallum,
The Blackbyrds,
Tropical Tobacco,
Drexciya,
Swell Maps,
The Red Krayola,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Newcleus,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Neil Young,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Boogie Down Productions,
Barrington Levy,
The Fuzztones,
Oneida,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rufus Thomas,
Excepter,
Sight & Sound,
Make Up,
Black Flag,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.