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 Andorra and from London.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 clarinet 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 Roxette to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Marine Girls,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Real Kids,
Underground Resistance,
Jerry's Kids,
Radio Birdman,
Johnny Clarke,
Graham Central Station,
Anakelly,
The Searchers,
Neil Young,
Drexciya,
Radiopuhelimet,
Metal Thangz,
Make Up,
Circle Jerks,
Ralphi Rosario,
Drive Like Jehu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sixth Finger,
Thee Headcoats,
Dual Sessions,
The Velvet Underground,
Lakeside,
Masters at Work,
Black Bananas,
Marmalade,
Los Fastidios,
Tim Buckley,
Zero Boys,
Altered Images,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Buckinghams,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nik Kershaw,
The Moleskins,
Q and Not U,
the Swans,
Quadrant,
Sällskapet,
Tears for Fears,
Von Mondo,
Ohio Players,
The Vogues,
Barbara Tucker,
DJ Style,
Faust,
Bootsy Collins,
Technova,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
R.M.O.,
Dawn Penn,
The Techniques,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
T. Rex,
Howard Jones,
Glenn Branca,
Brass Construction,
Chris & Cosey,
Alton Ellis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.