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 India and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 marimba 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 KRS-One to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
The Walker Brothers,
Essential Logic,
Goldenarms,
Marvin Gaye,
X-101,
Kool Moe Dee,
Stereo Dub,
The Star Department,
Michelle Simonal,
Agent Orange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fire Engines,
Radiohead,
Minor Threat,
Marshall Jefferson,
Hardrive,
David Bowie,
Deakin,
Throbbing Gristle,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Oblivians,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Hashim,
The Kinks,
Zero Boys,
Byron Stingily,
Harpers Bizarre,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Birthday Party,
Basic Channel,
Josef K,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Young Rascals,
Peter and Kerry,
E-Dancer,
The Tremeloes,
The Associates,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Moby Grape,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Section 25,
Joe Finger,
Theoretical Girls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Boredoms,
Gabor Szabo,
Yazoo,
Boz Scaggs,
Bobby Womack,
Flash Fearless,
Supertramp,
Suicide,
John Foxx,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bob Dylan,
The Red Krayola,
Pole,
Soft Machine,
Scott Walker,
Urselle,
Fela Kuti,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.