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 Saudi Arabia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Kerri Chandler to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Faust,
FM Einheit,
Spandau Ballet,
X-101,
Eden Ahbez,
The Associates,
Zero Boys,
The Invisible,
Todd Rundgren,
Pantytec,
Excepter,
Gichy Dan,
Outsiders,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dual Sessions,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Smiths,
Jacob Miller,
Brothers Johnson,
Eurythmics,
Aloha Tigers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kas Product,
Joe Smooth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Audionom,
Ponytail,
Vainqueur,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jerry's Kids,
Porter Ricks,
Ultra Naté,
Darondo,
The New Christs,
David Axelrod,
The Motions,
Babytalk,
Tom Boy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Black Sheep,
Bootsy Collins,
Josef K,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Radio Birdman,
Blake Baxter,
Nico,
Grandmaster Flash,
Popol Vuh,
June Days,
Organ,
Chris & Cosey,
Reuben Wilson,
The Slits,
Sonny Sharrock,
Henry Cow,
Youth Brigade,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.