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 Angola and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Bobby Byrd,
Bobby Sherman,
The Stooges,
Brass Construction,
Boogie Down Productions,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joensuu 1685,
UT,
Adolescents,
Scott Walker,
Erasure,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Morten Harket,
Trumans Water,
DJ Style,
Brand Nubian,
The Electric Prunes,
Todd Rundgren,
Qualms,
Mission of Burma,
Camouflage,
Gabor Szabo,
Crispian St. Peters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Shuggie Otis,
Crime,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gregory Isaacs,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lightning Bolt,
Soft Cell,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bronski Beat,
Funky Four + One,
Schoolly D,
Youth Brigade,
Spoonie Gee,
Black Flag,
Babytalk,
Cluster,
Frankie Knuckles,
Todd Terry,
Wings,
Icehouse,
Piero Umiliani,
Hardrive,
Sonic Youth,
Joe Finger,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Yaz,
New Order,
Cecil Taylor,
Boredoms,
Derrick May,
D'Angelo,
Eli Mardock,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express.
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.