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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Audionom to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Todd Rundgren,
Eve St. Jones,
48th St. Collective,
Babytalk,
Dave Gahan,
Lalann,
Au Pairs,
Fad Gadget,
Niagra,
kango's stein massive,
Cecil Taylor,
The Searchers,
Cheater Slicks,
Bad Manners,
Matthew Halsall,
Max Romeo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Peter and Kerry,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Todd Terry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Wells,
The Human League,
Slave,
Panda Bear,
Rotary Connection,
The Barracudas,
Groovy Waters,
a-ha,
The Angels of Light,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jeru the Damaja,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
D'Angelo,
ABC,
Robert Hood,
Silicon Teens,
Don Cherry,
Thompson Twins,
Jesper Dahlback,
Patti Smith,
Faust,
the Swans,
Maurizio,
Hardrive,
Bill Near,
Gabor Szabo,
Wasted Youth,
Kerrie Biddell,
Easy Going,
The Raincoats,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
X-101,
Arab on Radar,
H. Thieme,
Funkadelic,
The Invisible,
Depeche Mode,
Make Up,
The Associates,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.