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 Djibouti and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 linndrum 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 Peter & Gordon to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Mandrill,
Sugar Minott,
The Walker Brothers,
Sarah Menescal,
Motorama,
cv313,
The Blackbyrds,
Minny Pops,
Parry Music,
Lyres,
The Human League,
Vladislav Delay,
Q and Not U,
Easy Going,
Gang of Four,
Ultravox,
June Days,
The Count Five,
Gabor Szabo,
DNA,
Funkadelic,
Freddie Wadling,
Scientists,
Ice-T,
Das Ding,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Yazoo,
Visage,
MC5,
Derrick May,
Crispian St. Peters,
Urselle,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Accadde A,
Mary Jane Girls,
Slave,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Matthew Bourne,
Wire,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Theoretical Girls,
Altered Images,
Albert Ayler,
DJ Sneak,
The Saints,
Young Marble Giants,
The Doobie Brothers,
New Age Steppers,
Technova,
Laurel Aitken,
Gregory Isaacs,
Arthur Verocai,
Lou Christie,
Scion,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Juan Atkins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Make Up,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Crispy Ambulance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.