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 Fiji and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the rap 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Can,
kango's stein massive,
Reagan Youth,
Jeff Mills,
Sällskapet,
Outsiders,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Roy Ayers,
Quando Quango,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Silicon Teens,
Yellowson,
Robert Hood,
The United States of America,
Index,
Nico,
Altered Images,
cv313,
Marvin Gaye,
Lee Hazlewood,
Simply Red,
Goldenarms,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Bar-Kays,
The Victims,
Circle Jerks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Morten Harket,
Deepchord,
Ronnie Foster,
Essential Logic,
Jimmy McGriff,
Andrew Hill,
The Gories,
The Moody Blues,
Stockholm Monsters,
Isaac Hayes,
Alton Ellis,
Gang Starr,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Bush Tetras,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Gun Club,
Suburban Knight,
The New Christs,
David Bowie,
KRS-One,
Pharoah Sanders,
Aloha Tigers,
Crime,
Jeru the Damaja,
Animal Collective,
Kool Moe Dee,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.