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 Mauritius and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the guitar 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 Skriet to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Todd Terry,
Easy Going,
Sexual Harrassment,
FM Einheit,
Rotary Connection,
Ronan,
Echospace,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Vladislav Delay,
Brand Nubian,
The Techniques,
Avey Tare,
Pagans,
Panda Bear,
Sight & Sound,
Scion,
Darondo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Offenders,
Radiohead,
Young Marble Giants,
Grauzone,
Television Personalities,
Gang of Four,
Von Mondo,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Susan Cadogan,
Interpol,
Ornette Coleman,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Moody Blues,
Dead Boys,
The Electric Prunes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Janne Schatter,
The Mojo Men,
Silicon Teens,
John Foxx,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kevin Saunderson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Siglo XX,
Blancmange,
Fela Kuti,
Kool Moe Dee,
Andrew Hill,
Lee Hazlewood,
Buzzcocks,
Flipper,
the Sonics,
Urselle,
The Angels of Light,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Drexciya,
The Happenings,
Colin Newman,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mission of Burma,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.