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 Vanuatu and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Shadows of Knight to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacques Brel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Aloha Tigers,
Anakelly,
Big Daddy Kane,
T.S.O.L.,
Monolake,
Television,
Lucky Dragons,
Judy Mowatt,
Magma,
The Vogues,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sun City Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Piero Umiliani,
Ultimate Spinach,
Loose Ends,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Quantec,
Kas Product,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barclay James Harvest,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Camouflage,
Underground Resistance,
A Certain Ratio,
Barry Ungar,
Nation of Ulysses,
Oblivians,
Bronski Beat,
Bob Dylan,
The Moleskins,
The Busters,
The Tremeloes,
John Coltrane,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dual Sessions,
the Germs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tommy Roe,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agent Orange,
the Human League,
The Pop Group,
Ponytail,
Sonic Youth,
The Gories,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sam Rivers,
Joy Division,
Lower 48,
La Düsseldorf,
Chrome,
The Techniques,
Howard Jones,
Bizarre Inc.,
Stockholm Monsters,
Erasure,
Kurtis Blow,
Soft Cell,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.