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 Ukraine and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 linndrum 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 Liaisons Dangereuses to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Suburban Knight. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo 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?
Basic Channel,
Lungfish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Arthur Verocai,
Roger Hodgson,
Sugar Minott,
Peter & Gordon,
The Slackers,
The Wake,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Isaac Hayes,
The Monochrome Set,
Radiopuhelimet,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gun Club,
the Association,
Archie Shepp,
kango's stein massive,
Tubeway Army,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Au Pairs,
The Buckinghams,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ponytail,
Sun City Girls,
Matthew Halsall,
Charles Mingus,
Public Enemy,
The Grass Roots,
KRS-One,
Tommy Roe,
Magazine,
Mo-Dettes,
Tim Buckley,
Bronski Beat,
8 Eyed Spy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Godley & Creme,
Toni Rubio,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Standells,
Accadde A,
Talk Talk,
a-ha,
Prince Buster,
Todd Rundgren,
Neil Young,
Minor Threat,
The Zeros,
David McCallum,
Royal Trux,
Simply Red,
The Offenders,
Robert Hood,
Organ,
X-101,
The Sound,
Clear Light,
Spandau Ballet,
Patti Smith,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.