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 Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manchester.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 DJ Style 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Parry Music,
Vainqueur,
Talk Talk,
Blossom Toes,
Massinfluence,
Shuggie Otis,
R.M.O.,
Young Marble Giants,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
One Last Wish,
Swell Maps,
Youth Brigade,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Franke,
Thompson Twins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
June of 44,
Lindisfarne,
The Seeds,
The Mojo Men,
Al Stewart,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joy Division,
The Red Krayola,
Terrestrial Tones,
B.T. Express,
DJ Sneak,
The Misunderstood,
Reagan Youth,
Zero Boys,
Buzzcocks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Q65,
Crooked Eye,
Piero Umiliani,
Jeff Mills,
PIL,
Barbara Tucker,
Underground Resistance,
Nirvana,
Throbbing Gristle,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
MDC,
Negative Approach,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Erykah Badu,
The Standells,
Roy Ayers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Invisible,
The Doobie Brothers,
Infiniti,
Cal Tjader,
Moby Grape,
Funky Four + One,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Angels of Light,
Siglo XX,
The Pop Group,
The Moody Blues,
Hot Snakes,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.