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 Nigeria and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer 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 Agitation Free to the funk 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
One Last Wish,
Second Layer,
Jerry's Kids,
Echospace,
Alphaville,
Slick Rick,
The Pop Group,
Chris Corsano,
Sun Ra,
Gabor Szabo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rhythm & Sound,
Clear Light,
48th St. Collective,
Anakelly,
Godley & Creme,
Danielle Patucci,
Quantec,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Association,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Urselle,
Scan 7,
Dawn Penn,
Excepter,
The United States of America,
Das Ding,
The Raincoats,
Chris & Cosey,
David Bowie,
kango's stein massive,
Flipper,
Can,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
David McCallum,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fela Kuti,
Sun City Girls,
Funky Four + One,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Fania All-Stars,
Carl Craig,
Archie Shepp,
Model 500,
Darondo,
Iggy Pop,
Audionom,
Bluetip,
Derrick Morgan,
Brand Nubian,
Peter and Kerry,
John Holt,
Livin' Joy,
The Busters,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Interpol,
Pagans,
The Birthday Party,
The Pretty Things,
Porter Ricks,
The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders.
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.