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 Comoros and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 Mexico City and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 synthesizer 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 Arthur Verocai to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
China Crisis,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fortunes,
the Association,
Patti Smith,
Wire,
Bill Wells,
Index,
Accadde A,
Grey Daturas,
MDC,
MC5,
Robert Wyatt,
The Kinks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dave Gahan,
Letta Mbulu,
Cheater Slicks,
Agent Orange,
The Leaves,
Aloha Tigers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Minor Threat,
Ronnie Foster,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lower 48,
Henry Cow,
Maurizio,
X-102,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fad Gadget,
Lebanon Hanover,
Symarip,
Sun City Girls,
Country Teasers,
Radiohead,
Livin' Joy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Malaria!,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Pus,
Brothers Johnson,
E-Dancer,
Vainqueur,
Underground Resistance,
Bob Dylan,
The Invisible,
Morten Harket,
Model 500,
Minnie Riperton,
Half Japanese,
Rotary Connection,
Jesper Dahlback,
ABC,
Donny Hathaway,
Andrew Hill,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Smoke,
The Vogues,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.