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 Maldives and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the grunge 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Man Parrish,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Schoolly D,
Toni Rubio,
Dawn Penn,
ABC,
Joensuu 1685,
Agitation Free,
The Dirtbombs,
Jerry's Kids,
Ossler,
Aloha Tigers,
The Dead C,
Ultra Naté,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Alice Coltrane,
Bluetip,
The Invisible,
Suburban Knight,
Royal Trux,
Brand Nubian,
The Black Dice,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Residents,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roxy Music,
Barry Ungar,
Johnny Clarke,
Alison Limerick,
The Remains,
Sun City Girls,
10cc,
Man Eating Sloth,
E-Dancer,
The New Christs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Chrome,
Accadde A,
Outsiders,
Sound Behaviour,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dark Day,
Bobby Womack,
Smog,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Niagra,
Shuggie Otis,
Trumans Water,
Monks,
The Pop Group,
Isaac Hayes,
Black Sheep,
Swans,
Nils Olav,
Young Marble Giants,
Joe Smooth,
Aaron Thompson,
The Smiths,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Neu!,
Maurizio,
Make Up, Make Up, Make Up, Make Up.
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.