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 Rwanda and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rosa Yemen to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sight & Sound,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sun Ra,
Jerry's Kids,
Dennis Brown,
Peter and Kerry,
Slick Rick,
The J.B.'s,
The Dave Clark Five,
Negative Approach,
Fugazi,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Minny Pops,
Au Pairs,
Black Bananas,
The Busters,
Sound Behaviour,
Magma,
Soft Machine,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rod Modell,
Man Parrish,
Television,
Banda Bassotti,
Marvin Gaye,
Juan Atkins,
Skarface,
Drive Like Jehu,
Derrick Morgan,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Velvet Underground,
Carl Craig,
The Fall,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Dirtbombs,
Gabor Szabo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed,
Con Funk Shun,
Don Cherry,
This Heat,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Real Kids,
Monks,
Unrelated Segments,
Mantronix,
Morten Harket,
Sister Nancy,
Flash Fearless,
David McCallum,
Man Eating Sloth,
Scientists,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tom Boy,
Livin' Joy,
Cecil Taylor,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.