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 Kazakhstan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lille.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Birthday Party 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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
Gregory Isaacs,
X-102,
Chris & Cosey,
Crash Course in Science,
Don Cherry,
cv313,
Isaac Hayes,
Hashim,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Sonics,
Brick,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tim Buckley,
Eric Copeland,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brass Construction,
The Music Machine,
T. Rex,
Vladislav Delay,
Barry Ungar,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Velvet Underground,
Glenn Branca,
Dead Boys,
Andrew Hill,
Scrapy,
10cc,
Drexciya,
Grauzone,
Suicide,
Donald Byrd,
Black Flag,
Mr. Review,
Barrington Levy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David McCallum,
The Knickerbockers,
Half Japanese,
Intrusion,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eden Ahbez,
Underground Resistance,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Urselle,
Whodini,
Derrick May,
Dennis Brown,
Angry Samoans,
Gang of Four,
Tomorrow,
Pierre Henry,
Gerry Rafferty,
Neil Young,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cybotron,
Can,
Lakeside,
Joe Smooth,
Gil Scott Heron,
a-ha,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.