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 Chile and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Sound to the rock 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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlbäck record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a guitar 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 linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Derrick May,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lalann,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Altered Images,
Bush Tetras,
The Trojans,
The Human League,
Kaleidoscope,
The Techniques,
Johnny Clarke,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Joe Finger,
Sun City Girls,
Technova,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joyce Sims,
Hoover,
Essential Logic,
KRS-One,
Panda Bear,
Patti Smith,
Agitation Free,
Grauzone,
Tom Boy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Walker Brothers,
Second Layer,
World's Most,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mark Hollis,
Moby Grape,
Schoolly D,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Standells,
Unwound,
Adolescents,
Negative Approach,
The Moleskins,
Little Man,
Magazine,
Juan Atkins,
Aaron Thompson,
B.T. Express,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Neu!,
The Pop Group,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Hot Snakes,
Japan,
Judy Mowatt,
Circle Jerks,
Joy Division,
Minor Threat,
Man Parrish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gichy Dan,
Bluetip,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.