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 Latvia and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the marimba 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 Essential Logic to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Star Department,
Piero Umiliani,
Shoche,
The Standells,
The Motions,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Alison Limerick,
KRS-One,
Nico,
Roxy Music,
Parry Music,
Lyres,
The Seeds,
Isaac Hayes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Magma,
the Slits,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Chris Corsano,
The Victims,
Glenn Branca,
Amon Düül II,
Tears for Fears,
Sound Behaviour,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Names,
Eli Mardock,
Marvin Gaye,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Funkadelic,
Mantronix,
Subhumans,
Moss Icon,
Scion,
Lindisfarne,
Delta 5,
Pantaleimon,
Babytalk,
David McCallum,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Scan 7,
Boredoms,
Matthew Halsall,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Public Image Ltd.,
The New Christs,
Prince Buster,
Urselle,
Girls At Our Best!,
DNA,
The Buckinghams,
Lou Reed,
The Vogues,
Max Romeo,
Circle Jerks,
The Selecter,
Janne Schatter,
Tubeway Army,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.