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 Antigua and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fear to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blues Magoos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Lee Hazlewood,
Crispian St. Peters,
Brothers Johnson,
Quando Quango,
Boz Scaggs,
Lou Reed,
Quantec,
Crime,
Royal Trux,
New Age Steppers,
Aural Exciters,
Howard Jones,
Black Flag,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scott Walker,
ABBA,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Q65,
One Last Wish,
Marcia Griffiths,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Masters at Work,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Bar-Kays,
New Order,
Don Cherry,
Roy Ayers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Cymande,
Suicide,
Groovy Waters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bad Manners,
Severed Heads,
Wally Richardson,
Joensuu 1685,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bizarre Inc.,
Godley & Creme,
Metal Thangz,
Blossom Toes,
Piero Umiliani,
Jimmy McGriff,
Mark Hollis,
Juan Atkins,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Theoretical Girls,
Skriet,
Arcadia,
Second Layer,
Rod Modell,
Talk Talk,
Urselle,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
the Slits,
Chrome,
F. McDonald,
Sixth Finger,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.