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 Iraq and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 June Days to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 John Holt. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 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 sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
The Count Five,
E-Dancer,
Anakelly,
Terrestrial Tones,
Throbbing Gristle,
Newcleus,
New Order,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Girls At Our Best!,
cv313,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Janne Schatter,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Tremeloes,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kayak,
Peter & Gordon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Invisible,
The Zeros,
Gong,
Fluxion,
These Immortal Souls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scrapy,
Neu!,
Au Pairs,
Kaleidoscope,
Donald Byrd,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sunsets and Hearts,
China Crisis,
Khruangbin,
Grandmaster Flash,
Yusef Lateef,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bauhaus,
Amazonics,
Bill Near,
Panda Bear,
Don Cherry,
Ponytail,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lakeside,
Fela Kuti,
In Retrospect,
The Fortunes,
Peter and Kerry,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cameo,
Ohio Players,
Nation of Ulysses,
Smog,
Marc Almond,
Ronnie Foster,
Junior Murvin,
Duran Duran,
Massinfluence,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
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.