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 Philippines and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rosa Yemen to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Delta 5,
Ludus,
Rosa Yemen,
Peter & Gordon,
Bill Near,
Blancmange,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Fire Engines,
Kaleidoscope,
Yusef Lateef,
Section 25,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Shuggie Otis,
The Residents,
Siglo XX,
The Gladiators,
Thee Headcoats,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jesper Dahlback,
H. Thieme,
The Young Rascals,
Roxy Music,
The Smiths,
Roxette,
Cybotron,
Jeru the Damaja,
Oblivians,
Crime,
James White and The Blacks,
Black Sheep,
Amon Düül II,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Brand Nubian,
The Monochrome Set,
The Walker Brothers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harmonia,
The Vogues,
Rites of Spring,
Model 500,
Audionom,
DJ Style,
Fela Kuti,
The Pop Group,
Minutemen,
Spoonie Gee,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Duran Duran,
Rakim,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pet Shop Boys,
Iggy Pop,
Wally Richardson,
Joe Smooth,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Matthew Bourne,
Lightning Bolt,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.