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 Malta and from Mexico City.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 spring reverb 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 Radiopuhelimet to the techno 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Duran Duran,
The Gap Band,
Alphaville,
The Dirtbombs,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
OOIOO,
Stetsasonic,
Sam Rivers,
Underground Resistance,
Todd Rundgren,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Crime,
Outsiders,
In Retrospect,
Soul Sonic Force,
ABBA,
Shuggie Otis,
Essential Logic,
Albert Ayler,
Nirvana,
Blossom Toes,
R.M.O.,
Joey Negro,
Marc Almond,
Erasure,
Silicon Teens,
Fugazi,
Circle Jerks,
The American Breed,
The Detroit Cobras,
James White and The Blacks,
Matthew Bourne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Moon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Glenn Branca,
The Moleskins,
Tres Demented,
The Star Department,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Neon Judgement,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Amon Düül,
Camouflage,
The Doobie Brothers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Sheep,
Rosa Yemen,
JFA,
Matthew Halsall,
Reagan Youth,
Shoche,
Lou Reed,
Marshall Jefferson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sparks,
Siglo XX,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.