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 Grenada and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Aural Exciters to the disco 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 Tears for Fears. All the underground hits.
All Los Fastidios tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
kango's stein massive,
Erasure,
Neil Young,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
These Immortal Souls,
Loose Ends,
Gabor Szabo,
Letta Mbulu,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eurythmics,
Infiniti,
Qualms,
Negative Approach,
Soul II Soul,
Archie Shepp,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultravox,
The Skatalites,
The Durutti Column,
Lower 48,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scientists,
The Gladiators,
Kevin Saunderson,
Alice Coltrane,
Ronnie Foster,
Tom Boy,
Fear,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pussy Galore,
Can,
H. Thieme,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Alarm Clocks,
PIL,
Joe Smooth,
Fad Gadget,
New Age Steppers,
Little Man,
Rhythm & Sound,
Junior Murvin,
The Residents,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
R.M.O.,
Todd Rundgren,
This Heat,
Second Layer,
Arthur Verocai,
Pantaleimon,
DJ Style,
Marc Almond,
Charles Mingus,
Young Marble Giants,
Steve Hackett,
Gang of Four,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mary Jane Girls,
Neu!,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.