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 Stockholm.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the dance 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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Echospace,
The Red Krayola,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
James White and The Blacks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Stockholm Monsters,
Toni Rubio,
Banda Bassotti,
Piero Umiliani,
Rites of Spring,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rod Modell,
The Index,
Ludus,
Television,
Unrelated Segments,
The Stooges,
Jandek,
Barbara Tucker,
Leonard Cohen,
Gong,
Lungfish,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobby Sherman,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ice-T,
Janne Schatter,
Black Flag,
Sixth Finger,
Supertramp,
Maleditus Sound,
Brick,
The Kinks,
Lower 48,
The Pretty Things,
Joe Finger,
Aloha Tigers,
Thompson Twins,
AZ,
Mantronix,
Brass Construction,
EPMD,
Amazonics,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Human League,
Todd Terry,
Rosa Yemen,
Country Teasers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Faraquet,
Sly & The Family Stone,
L. Decosne,
Babytalk,
Newcleus,
Marvin Gaye,
Pole,
The Smoke,
Bill Wells,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.