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 Colombia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Skaos to the dance 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Rekid,
Tim Buckley,
Anakelly,
The Blackbyrds,
Icehouse,
Royal Trux,
The Misunderstood,
Wolf Eyes,
Avey Tare,
Kaleidoscope,
Hashim,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camouflage,
Donny Hathaway,
kango's stein massive,
Hardrive,
T. Rex,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Toni Rubio,
The Star Department,
Boz Scaggs,
Man Eating Sloth,
Shoche,
X-102,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
New York Dolls,
Grey Daturas,
Fluxion,
Aloha Tigers,
Rod Modell,
The J.B.'s,
Whodini,
Simply Red,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Harpers Bizarre,
Susan Cadogan,
Moss Icon,
Kenny Larkin,
Rites of Spring,
Swell Maps,
Mars,
Essential Logic,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Terry Callier,
Sight & Sound,
L. Decosne,
Unrelated Segments,
China Crisis,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Motorama,
Chrome,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cymande,
Massinfluence,
June of 44,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gang of Four,
Eden Ahbez,
Joyce Sims,
Monolake,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.