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 Morocco 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bluetip to the punk 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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
Alison Limerick,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bang On A Can,
Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
This Heat,
Maurizio,
Pharoah Sanders,
Von Mondo,
The Searchers,
Main Source,
The New Christs,
Cluster,
D'Angelo,
Roger Hodgson,
Donny Hathaway,
The Birthday Party,
Chris Corsano,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Dead C,
MDC,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Chrome,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lalann,
The Associates,
Alton Ellis,
Duran Duran,
Cecil Taylor,
Avey Tare,
Camberwell Now,
Juan Atkins,
Bootsy Collins,
Wire,
Essential Logic,
KRS-One,
Rakim,
Minny Pops,
Bronski Beat,
the Association,
Deakin,
The Index,
MC5,
The Blackbyrds,
Reuben Wilson,
Michelle Simonal,
Flash Fearless,
Marmalade,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Agitation Free,
Tim Buckley,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kurtis Blow,
Unrelated Segments,
Pulsallama,
World's Most,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
E-Dancer,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.