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 Spain and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Taipei.
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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
Suburban Knight,
Q65,
Deadbeat,
Rosa Yemen,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Oneida,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Searchers,
Outsiders,
Fluxion,
AZ,
The Real Kids,
Roxette,
Procol Harum,
Patti Smith,
Lindisfarne,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Aswad,
Scott Walker,
Boogie Down Productions,
Can,
Bob Dylan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Brick,
Letta Mbulu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Pop Group,
Sun Ra,
Delta 5,
The Trojans,
Au Pairs,
Michelle Simonal,
MC5,
Reagan Youth,
Dawn Penn,
Bluetip,
Leonard Cohen,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
A Certain Ratio,
Gastr Del Sol,
Donny Hathaway,
The Gun Club,
Fela Kuti,
cv313,
The Neon Judgement,
Ituana,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gerry Rafferty,
Toni Rubio,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Flag,
Liliput,
Soulsonic Force,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Terry Callier,
Yazoo,
Reuben Wilson,
Lyres,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.