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 Peru and from Shanghai.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar 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 Aaron Thompson to the disco 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Wolf Eyes,
The Music Machine,
Crooked Eye,
Gong,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fugazi,
Cheater Slicks,
Wally Richardson,
The Fortunes,
Avey Tare,
Deadbeat,
Lee Hazlewood,
Cal Tjader,
The Birthday Party,
Janne Schatter,
Camouflage,
U.S. Maple,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nas,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Public Enemy,
Guru Guru,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alton Ellis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jacob Miller,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gang Starr,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sonic Youth,
Young Marble Giants,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Tomorrow,
Tears for Fears,
Peter & Gordon,
Von Mondo,
Fatback Band,
Magma,
Colin Newman,
Flipper,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
A Certain Ratio,
Con Funk Shun,
Joyce Sims,
Scion,
FM Einheit,
Animal Collective,
Rotary Connection,
Boredoms,
Ultra Naté,
Jawbox,
Sight & Sound,
The Slackers,
Darondo,
Ossler,
John Foxx,
Simply Red,
Adolescents,
Scrapy,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.