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 Suriname and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 arpeggiator 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 Banda Bassotti to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skarface,
Niagra,
Flash Fearless,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Scratch Acid,
Joensuu 1685,
Con Funk Shun,
Graham Central Station,
Saccharine Trust,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nick Fraelich,
Robert Hood,
Sound Behaviour,
Soulsonic Force,
Mars,
La Düsseldorf,
Sister Nancy,
The Buckinghams,
Erykah Badu,
Fela Kuti,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Hardrive,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Donald Byrd,
Black Moon,
AZ,
Piero Umiliani,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Au Pairs,
Gastr Del Sol,
Radiopuhelimet,
Steve Hackett,
Aswad,
Cal Tjader,
Ultravox,
Quando Quango,
David Axelrod,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Index,
Make Up,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kevin Saunderson,
Aural Exciters,
The Seeds,
The American Breed,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sixth Finger,
Whodini,
Brand Nubian,
Chris & Cosey,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Sound,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jandek,
Joe Finger,
Minutemen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Oneida,
Unwound,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.