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 Serbia and from London.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Scrapy to the disco 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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June of 44,
Whodini,
Dennis Brown,
Steve Hackett,
The Victims,
a-ha,
Dawn Penn,
Spoonie Gee,
Newcleus,
The United States of America,
Fugazi,
The Sonics,
Eden Ahbez,
Cybotron,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Associates,
The J.B.'s,
Main Source,
Nick Fraelich,
Godley & Creme,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Dave Gahan,
The Gap Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Derrick May,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Robert Wyatt,
Sam Rivers,
Negative Approach,
Television,
Popol Vuh,
Second Layer,
David McCallum,
the Human League,
Index,
Black Moon,
Gang Green,
Anakelly,
ABBA,
Organ,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yaz,
Stetsasonic,
Pole,
OOIOO,
Country Teasers,
Infiniti,
Peter & Gordon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nas,
Idris Muhammad,
Rekid,
Neil Young,
DJ Style,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
L. Decosne,
Tomorrow,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
ABC,
the Slits,
Soft Machine,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.