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 Czech Republic 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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Andrew Hill to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Banda Bassotti,
Maleditus Sound,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Shoche,
Shuggie Otis,
Pierre Henry,
Arcadia,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Piero Umiliani,
Connie Case,
The Saints,
Echospace,
Prince Buster,
Lyres,
Eric Dolphy,
Avey Tare,
10cc,
Section 25,
Jerry's Kids,
Sound Behaviour,
Basic Channel,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Sonics,
The Leaves,
Joe Finger,
The Real Kids,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
A Certain Ratio,
EPMD,
Ossler,
The Zeros,
Quantec,
Marcia Griffiths,
cv313,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jeru the Damaja,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Aural Exciters,
F. McDonald,
Todd Rundgren,
The J.B.'s,
DJ Sneak,
The Associates,
The Moleskins,
Pole,
Reagan Youth,
It's A Beautiful Day,
ABBA,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Kinks,
Duran Duran,
Gong,
John Cale,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ituana,
Tomorrow,
June of 44,
PIL,
Depeche Mode,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.