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 Thailand and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Idris Muhammad to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cowsills,
Country Teasers,
Scion,
Slave,
Pantaleimon,
Eric Dolphy,
Cluster,
Harmonia,
Qualms,
cv313,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Newcleus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Camouflage,
The Monochrome Set,
Ralphi Rosario,
Stetsasonic,
Absolute Body Control,
Delta 5,
Pantytec,
Sugar Minott,
Easy Going,
The Real Kids,
Alton Ellis,
UT,
Barry Ungar,
Sällskapet,
The Searchers,
Outsiders,
Magma,
Max Romeo,
Archie Shepp,
Lungfish,
The Electric Prunes,
Jandek,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Model 500,
Chrome,
Dual Sessions,
Ossler,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pere Ubu,
Yusef Lateef,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Gun Club,
Nas,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Porter Ricks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lightning Bolt,
Scrapy,
Todd Rundgren,
Howard Jones,
JFA,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Sound,
Mandrill,
Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy.
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.