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 Tuvalu and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba 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 Jeff Lynne to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Residents,
Rosa Yemen,
Essential Logic,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Q and Not U,
Arcadia,
Faraquet,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Yellowson,
Nas,
David McCallum,
This Heat,
10cc,
Shoche,
Avey Tare,
The Remains,
Make Up,
Intrusion,
Glambeats Corp.,
James White and The Blacks,
Cymande,
Minny Pops,
Bill Near,
Hot Snakes,
Pantaleimon,
Suburban Knight,
JFA,
Dave Gahan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Chris Corsano,
Prince Buster,
Schoolly D,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Seeds,
Ultra Naté,
Iggy Pop,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tim Buckley,
Joensuu 1685,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
It's A Beautiful Day,
R.M.O.,
Kevin Saunderson,
Soulsonic Force,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Aswad,
The Neon Judgement,
John Cale,
The Music Machine,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nico,
Man Parrish,
Jeff Lynne,
The Velvet Underground,
The Move,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Sonics,
Yazoo,
Mark Hollis,
Lindisfarne,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.