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 Finland and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba 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 Eden Ahbez to the punk 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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DNA,
The Toasters,
Shoche,
It's A Beautiful Day,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Red Krayola,
Danielle Patucci,
Prince Buster,
Nation of Ulysses,
Wally Richardson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Urselle,
Letta Mbulu,
The Mojo Men,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Glenn Branca,
Theoretical Girls,
DJ Sneak,
Todd Terry,
David McCallum,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Make Up,
The Fall,
Reagan Youth,
ABC,
Terry Callier,
Albert Ayler,
the Human League,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Barrington Levy,
Joensuu 1685,
The Motions,
Zero Boys,
Ralphi Rosario,
LL Cool J,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sonic Youth,
Circle Jerks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jeff Mills,
Junior Murvin,
John Foxx,
Nik Kershaw,
The Knickerbockers,
Cheater Slicks,
Neu!,
James Chance & The Contortions,
These Immortal Souls,
Darondo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
James White and The Blacks,
Kas Product,
Clear Light,
Bauhaus,
Crispy Ambulance,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Unwound,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.