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 Libya and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Tom Verlaine 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 The Smoke to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Swell Maps,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bobbi Humphrey,
FM Einheit,
The Sound,
Q65,
Alphaville,
Iggy Pop,
Camberwell Now,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jerry's Kids,
The Gap Band,
Inner City,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Knickerbockers,
Brass Construction,
One Last Wish,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ornette Coleman,
Fela Kuti,
the Swans,
Stetsasonic,
Marine Girls,
Kayak,
Tropical Tobacco,
Mr. Review,
Rotary Connection,
Joey Negro,
Banda Bassotti,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Peter and Kerry,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Newcleus,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Heaven 17,
Depeche Mode,
Bluetip,
Radio Birdman,
The Selecter,
Delta 5,
Dual Sessions,
Section 25,
Public Enemy,
Glenn Branca,
Kaleidoscope,
Jeff Mills,
Buzzcocks,
Ponytail,
Ituana,
Boz Scaggs,
Spoonie Gee,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Al Stewart,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Busters,
The Monks,
cv313,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.