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 Luxembourg and from Beijing.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the organ 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 Pole to the funk 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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Count Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
Bobby Byrd,
Andrew Hill,
Subhumans,
Roxy Music,
Con Funk Shun,
The Last Poets,
Zapp,
Glenn Branca,
CMW,
The Velvet Underground,
Faust,
Unrelated Segments,
The Modern Lovers,
Alice Coltrane,
Lightning Bolt,
Crash Course in Science,
Organ,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alphaville,
Silicon Teens,
David Axelrod,
The Pop Group,
Peter & Gordon,
The Monochrome Set,
Malaria!,
Tom Boy,
Cal Tjader,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Depeche Mode,
Masters at Work,
L. Decosne,
Jacob Miller,
Carl Craig,
The Birthday Party,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kerrie Biddell,
Second Layer,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rhythm & Sound,
T.S.O.L.,
The Cramps,
Fat Boys,
Minutemen,
Public Image Ltd.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Steve Hackett,
Qualms,
Marmalade,
Donny Hathaway,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eric Dolphy,
Boredoms,
The Evens,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lucky Dragons,
Grandmaster Flash,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.