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 Oman and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kas Product,
Metal Thangz,
D'Angelo,
B.T. Express,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Half Japanese,
Fluxion,
The Mojo Men,
Moebius,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bob Dylan,
Flash Fearless,
The Index,
The Seeds,
La Düsseldorf,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Spandau Ballet,
Rotary Connection,
Minnie Riperton,
New Order,
Bang On A Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Steve Hackett,
Maurizio,
Sugar Minott,
The United States of America,
Lindisfarne,
Black Flag,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Thee Headcoats,
The Grass Roots,
The Modern Lovers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Magma,
Aswad,
The Happenings,
The Doors,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Invisible,
Laurel Aitken,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ralphi Rosario,
Man Parrish,
Wally Richardson,
Bill Wells,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sex Pistols,
David Bowie,
The Tremeloes,
Ken Boothe,
Wire,
Young Marble Giants,
Anakelly,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Neil Young,
Hasil Adkins,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Junior Murvin,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.