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 South Sudan and from Mexico City.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Oneida to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
Motorama,
World's Most,
Crime,
Marmalade,
Whodini,
The Techniques,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ash Ra Tempel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Young Marble Giants,
Flipper,
48th St. Collective,
Lou Reed,
Sexual Harrassment,
cv313,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Royal Trux,
Glambeats Corp.,
David Axelrod,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Mummies,
The Tremeloes,
MDC,
Essential Logic,
X-102,
the Human League,
CMW,
Fear,
Desert Stars,
The Birthday Party,
Rakim,
D'Angelo,
Jacques Brel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Khruangbin,
Aaron Thompson,
Rites of Spring,
Camberwell Now,
Joey Negro,
Blancmange,
The Golliwogs,
Wally Richardson,
The Evens,
Delon & Dalcan,
Grandmaster Flash,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Isaac Hayes,
The Pretty Things,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Symarip,
John Foxx,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Thompson Twins,
The Saints,
Ultra Naté,
Public Enemy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.