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 Benin and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Harpers Bizarre to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt 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 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Schoolly D,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Neil Young,
DJ Style,
Whodini,
Joyce Sims,
Reuben Wilson,
Icehouse,
Q and Not U,
Moebius,
Blake Baxter,
One Last Wish,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Unrelated Segments,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sister Nancy,
The Move,
Mad Mike,
The Wake,
Bluetip,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Brass Construction,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cramps,
Popol Vuh,
KRS-One,
Duran Duran,
Adolescents,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
New York Dolls,
The Monochrome Set,
Morten Harket,
Supertramp,
Albert Ayler,
Barrington Levy,
the Swans,
Iggy Pop,
Patti Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Judy Mowatt,
The Offenders,
Byron Stingily,
The Red Krayola,
Gerry Rafferty,
Depeche Mode,
Eden Ahbez,
Bizarre Inc.,
Average White Band,
Joy Division,
Pylon,
David Bowie,
the Soft Cell,
Motorama,
Gichy Dan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Silicon Teens,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!.
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.