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 Finland and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Kas Product to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette 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 a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Anthony Braxton,
Peter & Gordon,
Mission of Burma,
Idris Muhammad,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cal Tjader,
Morten Harket,
Jeff Mills,
Soulsonic Force,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pet Shop Boys,
Toni Rubio,
Sun Ra,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sound Behaviour,
The Mummies,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Arab on Radar,
The Doobie Brothers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terrestrial Tones,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rotary Connection,
The Motions,
Yellowson,
Severed Heads,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Procol Harum,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bauhaus,
Loose Ends,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rekid,
Magma,
Black Flag,
Skriet,
Audionom,
Scratch Acid,
Barry Ungar,
Black Moon,
Magazine,
Bob Dylan,
Sugar Minott,
Leonard Cohen,
The Gories,
The Fortunes,
Aswad,
A Certain Ratio,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Associates,
The Beau Brummels,
The Standells,
The Shadows of Knight,
Josef K,
Babytalk,
Silicon Teens,
The Pop Group,
Royal Trux,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.