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 Azerbaijan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Remains to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Pet Shop Boys,
DJ Sneak,
The Gladiators,
Josef K,
Intrusion,
Deadbeat,
John Foxx,
Chrome,
Sonic Youth,
The Wake,
Con Funk Shun,
CMW,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Faraquet,
Lower 48,
Mantronix,
Rufus Thomas,
The Count Five,
F. McDonald,
Unwound,
Roxette,
Basic Channel,
Bootsy Collins,
Kenny Larkin,
Japan,
the Soft Cell,
Q65,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Magazine,
Lucky Dragons,
Siglo XX,
The Seeds,
Trumans Water,
Bobby Womack,
Fela Kuti,
James White and The Blacks,
Television,
Jerry's Kids,
The Motions,
Underground Resistance,
Eurythmics,
Zapp,
Jeff Lynne,
The New Christs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bauhaus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rapeman,
Fatback Band,
Can,
Reuben Wilson,
Oneida,
Maleditus Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alton Ellis,
Althea and Donna,
Joyce Sims,
The Buckinghams,
Bobby Byrd,
Quando Quango,
Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms.
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.