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 Monaco and from Beijing.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Donald Byrd to the techno 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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme 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?
Kayak,
Laurel Aitken,
Underground Resistance,
Rapeman,
Byron Stingily,
Dennis Brown,
X-101,
La Düsseldorf,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Derrick Morgan,
Japan,
Blossom Toes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Main Source,
Kerrie Biddell,
Technova,
Los Fastidios,
Toni Rubio,
Little Man,
The Black Dice,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Idris Muhammad,
Reuben Wilson,
Siglo XX,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Offenders,
Scientists,
Jeru the Damaja,
Oblivians,
Neu!,
Roxy Music,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bobby Womack,
The Evens,
Sugar Minott,
Cluster,
the Sonics,
Franke,
Schoolly D,
Gang Starr,
Skarface,
Pagans,
Marvin Gaye,
The Index,
The Music Machine,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ponytail,
EPMD,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eve St. Jones,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rekid,
The Star Department,
Wally Richardson,
Q65,
Alton Ellis,
Aural Exciters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.