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 Tunisia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 harpsichord 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 Rekid to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Susan Cadogan,
Sex Pistols,
the Bar-Kays,
Isaac Hayes,
Godley & Creme,
Brand Nubian,
Mantronix,
Alton Ellis,
Swell Maps,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ludus,
Joe Finger,
Echospace,
Gang Starr,
Marine Girls,
Wire,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Urselle,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bluetip,
Howard Jones,
Von Mondo,
Barbara Tucker,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Q and Not U,
Minor Threat,
Dual Sessions,
Electric Prunes,
Tomorrow,
The Offenders,
Brick,
Angry Samoans,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Chrome,
CMW,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Skatalites,
Theoretical Girls,
Excepter,
Vainqueur,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Evens,
Sandy B,
Black Flag,
OOIOO,
The Buckinghams,
Jerry's Kids,
Sam Rivers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Gories,
Eden Ahbez,
the Soft Cell,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ken Boothe,
48th St. Collective,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Television Personalities,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.