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 Kosovo and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the techno 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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Mad Mike,
Half Japanese,
In Retrospect,
Massinfluence,
The Neon Judgement,
Technova,
Boredoms,
Unrelated Segments,
Black Moon,
Mission of Burma,
Tommy Roe,
Robert Görl,
Mandrill,
Sonny Sharrock,
Zero Boys,
MDC,
Reagan Youth,
Kenny Larkin,
the Germs,
Leonard Cohen,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lyres,
Pantaleimon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ituana,
The Mummies,
The Smiths,
Electric Prunes,
The Associates,
Howard Jones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Flash Fearless,
Agent Orange,
The Raincoats,
Basic Channel,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Quando Quango,
The Remains,
Metal Thangz,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Steve Hackett,
The Sound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Grandmaster Flash,
Blancmange,
Magma,
Stereo Dub,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joe Finger,
Anthony Braxton,
Fear,
The Moody Blues,
Wings,
Maleditus Sound,
Eli Mardock,
Monolake,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.