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 Vietnam and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Donald Fagen 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 JFA to the jazz 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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eddi Front,
New Order,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sonic Youth,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Residents,
Roger Hodgson,
Prince Buster,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Normal,
Rakim,
Mars,
John Lydon,
Joe Finger,
PIL,
Niagra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Silicon Teens,
K-Klass,
Crime,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Shoche,
The Skatalites,
The Wake,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Soulsonic Force,
Essential Logic,
Franke,
DJ Sneak,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Blancmange,
Radiohead,
Theoretical Girls,
Scion,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ultravox,
The Sonics,
Max Romeo,
the Germs,
Metal Thangz,
Gang Green,
The Zeros,
These Immortal Souls,
Main Source,
Rapeman,
Bizarre Inc.,
Derrick Morgan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
X-102,
Severed Heads,
Camouflage,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Flesh Eaters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rekid,
Newcleus,
Gabor Szabo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.