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 Ireland and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Columbus.
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 güiro 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 The Fall to the dance 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Niagra,
Lou Christie,
Index,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Can,
Deepchord,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nas,
Jandek,
Moebius,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Black Pus,
Ultravox,
Intrusion,
Nirvana,
The Misunderstood,
Black Sheep,
Oneida,
Barrington Levy,
The Smiths,
Rotary Connection,
Gang Gang Dance,
Hot Snakes,
Alice Coltrane,
KRS-One,
Quadrant,
Wally Richardson,
Qualms,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Black Moon,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Happenings,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Boredoms,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Real Kids,
Hardrive,
Max Romeo,
Flipper,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Organ,
Yusef Lateef,
Stockholm Monsters,
Easy Going,
The Monochrome Set,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter & Gordon,
Isaac Hayes,
The Litter,
Yazoo,
Glambeats Corp.,
Archie Shepp,
Barbara Tucker,
Erykah Badu,
The Gap Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Roy Ayers,
Stetsasonic,
The Barracudas,
Ituana,
Kenny Larkin,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.