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 Peru and from Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 New Age Steppers to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Nick Fraelich,
Zapp,
Animal Collective,
Derrick Morgan,
Wings,
CMW,
Sight & Sound,
Accadde A,
Bill Near,
DJ Style,
The Alarm Clocks,
Joensuu 1685,
the Slits,
Groovy Waters,
Black Flag,
Mandrill,
Stetsasonic,
Mark Hollis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Can,
Hasil Adkins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Young Marble Giants,
A Certain Ratio,
Donny Hathaway,
Curtis Mayfield,
Blake Baxter,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Associates,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Blossom Toes,
Ronan,
B.T. Express,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fela Kuti,
In Retrospect,
Pulsallama,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Doors,
Amon Düül II,
Morten Harket,
Echospace,
The Fall,
Laurel Aitken,
Fear,
Eli Mardock,
L. Decosne,
Funky Four + One,
Pet Shop Boys,
Graham Central Station,
Soul II Soul,
Gichy Dan,
Minnie Riperton,
the Fania All-Stars,
Peter & Gordon,
Soulsonic Force,
The Angels of Light,
Sparks,
The Young Rascals,
Ultra Naté,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.