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 Brazil and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 synthesizer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Suicide. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Technova,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soulsonic Force,
the Human League,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Bananas,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Young Marble Giants,
Basic Channel,
R.M.O.,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alton Ellis,
Eve St. Jones,
Sällskapet,
the Association,
Sixth Finger,
The Misunderstood,
Gang of Four,
Yazoo,
Rakim,
Glenn Branca,
Skaos,
Idris Muhammad,
Deadbeat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Anakelly,
Mark Hollis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Blancmange,
Quantec,
Swell Maps,
The Fire Engines,
The Offenders,
Pantaleimon,
Tomorrow,
Black Pus,
Roger Hodgson,
Jeff Lynne,
L. Decosne,
The Dirtbombs,
the Swans,
the Slits,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Procol Harum,
Crispian St. Peters,
One Last Wish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marine Girls,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Velvet Underground,
Quadrant,
Can,
Deakin,
Ten City,
Joey Negro,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Q65,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ultra Naté,
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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.