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 Liechtenstein and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 güiro 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the disco 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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultra Naté record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Lebanon Hanover,
Matthew Halsall,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Blancmange,
Public Image Ltd.,
Glambeats Corp.,
Spoonie Gee,
Zapp,
Accadde A,
Popol Vuh,
Procol Harum,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wire,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Can,
Darondo,
Tres Demented,
June Days,
Sugar Minott,
Pylon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mark Hollis,
Goldenarms,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Girls At Our Best!,
10cc,
OOIOO,
Howard Jones,
Minor Threat,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Soul Sonic Force,
Suburban Knight,
Make Up,
Crispian St. Peters,
Crime,
Young Marble Giants,
Laurel Aitken,
Franke,
X-102,
Ice-T,
Japan,
A Certain Ratio,
The Standells,
Ken Boothe,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Amazonics,
Neu!,
The Tremeloes,
T.S.O.L.,
Pharoah Sanders,
Index,
The Golliwogs,
Mo-Dettes,
Maurizio,
Scion,
Wings,
The Knickerbockers,
Cal Tjader,
Cameo,
The Dead C,
The Motions,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.