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 Vanuatu and from Delhi.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 theremin 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 Derrick Morgan to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Wake,
Soft Cell,
Lee Hazlewood,
Essential Logic,
The Zeros,
Pagans,
Q and Not U,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Velvet Underground,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Joey Negro,
New Order,
Inner City,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cameo,
Zero Boys,
Cheater Slicks,
Bluetip,
Animal Collective,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mark Hollis,
Bill Near,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Association,
Bronski Beat,
KRS-One,
David Axelrod,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Das Ding,
Tom Boy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hardrive,
MDC,
Minutemen,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Fania All-Stars,
Los Fastidios,
Lou Reed,
Silicon Teens,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Litter,
Deadbeat,
The Red Krayola,
Cymande,
Section 25,
The Birthday Party,
Alice Coltrane,
Mars,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Skatalites,
Mission of Burma,
the Sonics,
The Star Department,
Aswad,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Human League,
Crash Course in Science,
Television Personalities,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.