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 Equatorial Guinea and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and London.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Quando Quango to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Rod Modell,
Dennis Brown,
Tommy Roe,
Fatback Band,
D'Angelo,
Television Personalities,
CMW,
Quantec,
Flash Fearless,
Lyres,
Jacques Brel,
The Motions,
Joe Finger,
Donald Byrd,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Circle Jerks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minnie Riperton,
Roxette,
The Durutti Column,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sight & Sound,
Lightning Bolt,
Trumans Water,
Boz Scaggs,
Howard Jones,
10cc,
Groovy Waters,
Neil Young,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Charles Mingus,
Simply Red,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ken Boothe,
X-Ray Spex,
Country Teasers,
ABBA,
Monolake,
The Monochrome Set,
The Grass Roots,
Urselle,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Donny Hathaway,
Bronski Beat,
Theoretical Girls,
The Misunderstood,
Thompson Twins,
Amon Düül II,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Residents,
The Beau Brummels,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Robert Hood,
Model 500,
The Angels of Light,
Marmalade,
Second Layer,
Toni Rubio,
Marine Girls,
Oblivians,
Camberwell Now,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.