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 Gabon and from Delhi.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lalo Schifrin to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Residents. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
The Searchers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Warren Ellis,
Cheater Slicks,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Cramps,
Liliput,
Vainqueur,
Joe Finger,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Guru Guru,
Vladislav Delay,
The Toasters,
A Certain Ratio,
Ultravox,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Nas,
Sister Nancy,
Erasure,
Faust,
Roger Hodgson,
Amazonics,
Thompson Twins,
Minutemen,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Human League,
Oblivians,
Eden Ahbez,
The Velvet Underground,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Motions,
Heaven 17,
Sly & The Family Stone,
World's Most,
Young Marble Giants,
The Selecter,
Infiniti,
T. Rex,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tommy Roe,
Interpol,
The Star Department,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Can,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Matthew Bourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moleskins,
Marc Almond,
Youth Brigade,
PIL,
The Slackers,
Country Teasers,
Cluster,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ken Boothe,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joyce Sims,
In Retrospect,
The Evens,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.