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 Palau and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lightning Bolt to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott 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?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Soft Cell,
The Stooges,
The Velvet Underground,
CMW,
The Fall,
Erasure,
The Saints,
Ultra Naté,
Amazonics,
Negative Approach,
Brick,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Vladislav Delay,
The Searchers,
Neil Young,
Faust,
Joe Finger,
JFA,
Jawbox,
Pagans,
The Pop Group,
Sarah Menescal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Absolute Body Control,
The Slackers,
Gang of Four,
The Barracudas,
Sun City Girls,
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kerri Chandler,
Stereo Dub,
Black Pus,
Rosa Yemen,
Stiv Bators,
Lakeside,
The Gories,
Sandy B,
Fear,
Aural Exciters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Junior Murvin,
KRS-One,
The Seeds,
Michelle Simonal,
Newcleus,
Moss Icon,
Moebius,
Roxy Music,
Dead Boys,
Toni Rubio,
Robert Wyatt,
Fatback Band,
Eli Mardock,
Gastr Del Sol,
In Retrospect,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Robert Görl,
Second Layer,
Peter and Kerry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.