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 Switzerland and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
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 Section 25 to the crunk 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 Pharoah Sanders. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Evens,
Brass Construction,
The Raincoats,
The Monochrome Set,
The Sound,
Laurel Aitken,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minny Pops,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Vainqueur,
Adolescents,
Outsiders,
Metal Thangz,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eli Mardock,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rosa Yemen,
Yaz,
Drive Like Jehu,
Alice Coltrane,
Cameo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Vladislav Delay,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ultra Naté,
The Busters,
Arthur Verocai,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Unwound,
Hasil Adkins,
the Germs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Drexciya,
Yazoo,
Roger Hodgson,
Sällskapet,
Swans,
Gabor Szabo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sugar Minott,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
ABBA,
Blancmange,
Make Up,
Sun City Girls,
The Cure,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Mummies,
JFA,
Camouflage,
Trumans Water,
Dave Gahan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pagans,
Loose Ends,
Anthony Braxton,
The Divine Comedy,
Alphaville,
Absolute Body Control,
The Star Department,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.