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 Samoa and from Winnipeg.
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 Johannesburg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Steve Hackett record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
The Buckinghams,
Tommy Roe,
Guru Guru,
Silicon Teens,
Dual Sessions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Doors,
Mo-Dettes,
Erasure,
Rotary Connection,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Durutti Column,
Japan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
L. Decosne,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tim Buckley,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Altered Images,
Basic Channel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Outsiders,
Toni Rubio,
Josef K,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Deakin,
Throbbing Gristle,
Stockholm Monsters,
La Düsseldorf,
The Associates,
Fear,
Slick Rick,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ohio Players,
Radiohead,
John Foxx,
the Swans,
Jeff Lynne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jacob Miller,
OOIOO,
Marvin Gaye,
Das Ding,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Brass Construction,
Anakelly,
Aural Exciters,
EPMD,
Cheater Slicks,
Bad Manners,
Fugazi,
Q and Not U,
Godley & Creme,
Fela Kuti,
Depeche Mode,
Babytalk,
Glenn Branca,
Deadbeat,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.