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 Dominica and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the techno 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
Lungfish,
Can,
Michelle Simonal,
Nico,
Television,
The Beau Brummels,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bootsy Collins,
Quando Quango,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
L. Decosne,
Symarip,
The Monochrome Set,
Agitation Free,
Reuben Wilson,
The Divine Comedy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Schoolly D,
The Blues Magoos,
Boz Scaggs,
Tubeway Army,
Erykah Badu,
Tommy Roe,
ABBA,
World's Most,
Joey Negro,
Colin Newman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skaos,
Soulsonic Force,
Massinfluence,
R.M.O.,
Arab on Radar,
Moby Grape,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Juan Atkins,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
David Axelrod,
The Fugs,
Loose Ends,
These Immortal Souls,
Audionom,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Section 25,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ornette Coleman,
Mission of Burma,
Ronnie Foster,
Hot Snakes,
The Pretty Things,
Pussy Galore,
Albert Ayler,
Matthew Halsall,
Clear Light,
Electric Prunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Boogie Down Productions,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.