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 Georgia and from Portland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
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 oboe 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 LL Cool J to the punk 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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Colin Newman,
Radiopuhelimet,
Soulsonic Force,
Arthur Verocai,
Ituana,
Scratch Acid,
Neu!,
The Alarm Clocks,
Buzzcocks,
AZ,
Gang Green,
Bang On A Can,
Grauzone,
John Cale,
The Real Kids,
The Misunderstood,
Nick Fraelich,
F. McDonald,
Wire,
Quando Quango,
Rakim,
Blake Baxter,
Intrusion,
Peter & Gordon,
Gregory Isaacs,
June of 44,
Infiniti,
Shoche,
Fad Gadget,
UT,
DJ Sneak,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Donald Byrd,
Harmonia,
Altered Images,
Brick,
The Gun Club,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Amon Düül,
Leonard Cohen,
Marvin Gaye,
H. Thieme,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tears for Fears,
Crispian St. Peters,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Public Image Ltd.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ken Boothe,
Kayak,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
EPMD,
Depeche Mode,
Siglo XX,
New Order,
Outsiders,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wally Richardson,
Chrome,
David Axelrod,
Technova,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.