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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Josef K to the disco 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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James White and The Blacks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
Wings,
Deadbeat,
Q65,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nik Kershaw,
the Sonics,
Pere Ubu,
Quando Quango,
Fear,
Joyce Sims,
Mad Mike,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gichy Dan,
Scan 7,
June Days,
Aloha Tigers,
Rapeman,
The Beau Brummels,
Tomorrow,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Misunderstood,
F. McDonald,
New Age Steppers,
Severed Heads,
Rotary Connection,
Quantec,
The Neon Judgement,
Reuben Wilson,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Divine Comedy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Peter & Gordon,
Bronski Beat,
Grauzone,
The Black Dice,
DNA,
Ohio Players,
Lakeside,
The Offenders,
Scratch Acid,
Make Up,
Shoche,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bobby Byrd,
The Mummies,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Standells,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kool Moe Dee,
Sandy B,
John Cale,
The Fortunes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Residents,
Mo-Dettes,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.