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 Colombia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Accra.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Flash Fearless to the disco 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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Monks,
The Busters,
Massinfluence,
Peter & Gordon,
New Order,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Urselle,
The Cure,
Terry Callier,
Schoolly D,
Lalann,
Talk Talk,
Negative Approach,
AZ,
The Gun Club,
Harry Pussy,
The Knickerbockers,
Sixth Finger,
The Skatalites,
The Victims,
Masters at Work,
Lightning Bolt,
The Associates,
Tubeway Army,
New Age Steppers,
Yaz,
The Slits,
Unwound,
Nirvana,
Fela Kuti,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Matthew Halsall,
The Five Americans,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Bar-Kays,
Sonny Sharrock,
Radiohead,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Skaos,
The United States of America,
The Fuzztones,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Pretty Things,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Essential Logic,
Severed Heads,
Q65,
Davy DMX,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sister Nancy,
Intrusion,
The Fortunes,
8 Eyed Spy,
MC5,
Royal Trux,
Make Up,
The Seeds,
Surgeon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.