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 Niger and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Gichy Dan to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The New Christs. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Yazoo,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Red Krayola,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Buzzcocks,
The Fire Engines,
Gerry Rafferty,
Aural Exciters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marine Girls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
cv313,
JFA,
Qualms,
The Leaves,
Leonard Cohen,
David Axelrod,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Brick,
Radio Birdman,
Sällskapet,
Fela Kuti,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Monochrome Set,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sun City Girls,
Mantronix,
The Fall,
Oblivians,
PIL,
The Misunderstood,
Hashim,
the Soft Cell,
Brass Construction,
10cc,
Toni Rubio,
Aloha Tigers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Liliput,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fortunes,
Marc Almond,
Anakelly,
Slave,
Stereo Dub,
The Dead C,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arcadia,
Flash Fearless,
Brothers Johnson,
Freddie Wadling,
Deepchord,
Subhumans,
The Cure,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Josef K,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Vogues,
Nils Olav,
Funky Four + One,
Iggy Pop,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.