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 Guatemala 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Terrestrial Tones to the jazz 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 The Toasters. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Isaac Hayes,
Fatback Band,
The Mojo Men,
The Smiths,
Sun Ra,
Matthew Bourne,
Lower 48,
Inner City,
Goldenarms,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
X-101,
The Dirtbombs,
Stereo Dub,
Alice Coltrane,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Organ,
Delta 5,
Sandy B,
The Young Rascals,
Ludus,
Eric Copeland,
The Move,
New York Dolls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rod Modell,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tres Demented,
Y Pants,
The Birthday Party,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brick,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Intrusion,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
X-Ray Spex,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pylon,
The Fall,
Sam Rivers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fluxion,
X-102,
Altered Images,
The Barracudas,
Symarip,
Theoretical Girls,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sonic Youth,
Roy Ayers,
Drexciya,
The Trojans,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mad Mike,
Tim Buckley,
Hardrive,
Avey Tare,
Underground Resistance,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.