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 Japan and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 sitar 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 These Immortal Souls to the techno 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Second Layer,
Robert Hood,
The Slits,
Royal Trux,
Nils Olav,
Drexciya,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tears for Fears,
The Walker Brothers,
The Smoke,
X-102,
Average White Band,
Gang Green,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fela Kuti,
Absolute Body Control,
F. McDonald,
The Five Americans,
Joe Finger,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Drive Like Jehu,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lakeside,
Todd Terry,
the Slits,
The Sound,
Radiohead,
World's Most,
The Searchers,
Marc Almond,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Mojo Men,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Alton Ellis,
Sugar Minott,
Moby Grape,
Black Sheep,
Aswad,
Black Bananas,
The Move,
The Monochrome Set,
Sun Ra,
Howard Jones,
The Modern Lovers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Suburban Knight,
Crooked Eye,
Accadde A,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Qualms,
Piero Umiliani,
Slick Rick,
Soulsonic Force,
the Sonics,
Erasure,
Soul II Soul,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Red Krayola,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.