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 Guinea and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Hoover to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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,
Pantaleimon,
The Seeds,
Lungfish,
Toni Rubio,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Letta Mbulu,
Massinfluence,
Visage,
Groovy Waters,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kerri Chandler,
Gang of Four,
Magma,
Laurel Aitken,
T. Rex,
the Germs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Moss Icon,
The Slackers,
The Stooges,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Golliwogs,
Accadde A,
Sam Rivers,
The Pretty Things,
X-102,
Vainqueur,
Eric B and Rakim,
Trumans Water,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Beau Brummels,
The Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moby Grape,
Brand Nubian,
Connie Case,
Fatback Band,
MC5,
Ultra Naté,
Fear,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Royal Trux,
Jacob Miller,
Little Man,
Television,
Zero Boys,
David Bowie,
John Coltrane,
Scientists,
Barrington Levy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Slits,
Nation of Ulysses,
Thompson Twins,
Jeru the Damaja,
Spoonie Gee,
Schoolly D,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.