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 Mali and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Desert Stars to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Yusef Lateef,
Procol Harum,
Clear Light,
Von Mondo,
Interpol,
The Index,
Blake Baxter,
Cal Tjader,
Chrome,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Blancmange,
Isaac Hayes,
10cc,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Tremeloes,
Metal Thangz,
Pierre Henry,
Roxy Music,
Dave Gahan,
Agitation Free,
Lakeside,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Joe Finger,
Supertramp,
The Invisible,
The Busters,
Harpers Bizarre,
Boredoms,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Walker Brothers,
Fluxion,
Inner City,
China Crisis,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Barracudas,
John Foxx,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Wake,
Y Pants,
Todd Terry,
Eli Mardock,
The Human League,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lungfish,
The Sound,
Siglo XX,
Aloha Tigers,
Flipper,
Joe Smooth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Warren Ellis,
Banda Bassotti,
Second Layer,
Drexciya,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Stockholm Monsters,
Brick,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.