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 Venezuela and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Masters at Work to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Popol Vuh. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Amon Düül,
Ultravox,
Slave,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yazoo,
The Busters,
Ludus,
Lindisfarne,
Minny Pops,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eric Copeland,
MC5,
Q and Not U,
Desert Stars,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ituana,
Grandmaster Flash,
Warren Ellis,
Jeff Lynne,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Doors,
Scratch Acid,
The Human League,
Nirvana,
Outsiders,
Tom Boy,
Aswad,
Carl Craig,
Moss Icon,
Barbara Tucker,
Roxy Music,
The Pretty Things,
Funky Four + One,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Unrelated Segments,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Silicon Teens,
Magma,
Mo-Dettes,
The Mummies,
The Knickerbockers,
H. Thieme,
Reagan Youth,
Sam Rivers,
Youth Brigade,
Visage,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
John Foxx,
The United States of America,
The New Christs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Country Teasers,
The Fugs,
Roger Hodgson,
MDC,
Marshall Jefferson,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Count Five,
KRS-One,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.