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 Niger 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Saccharine Trust to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
James White and The Blacks,
Eli Mardock,
Kool Moe Dee,
Althea and Donna,
Motorama,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Kayak,
Mantronix,
Pussy Galore,
Mark Hollis,
Fela Kuti,
Echospace,
Von Mondo,
Quadrant,
Magma,
Camouflage,
Vainqueur,
The Slackers,
Country Teasers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marvin Gaye,
The Remains,
Sonic Youth,
Marmalade,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lalann,
Derrick Morgan,
Michelle Simonal,
Peter and Kerry,
Jeff Lynne,
Fad Gadget,
Cheater Slicks,
Erykah Badu,
Ronan,
Ultimate Spinach,
JFA,
Rotary Connection,
The Searchers,
Jeff Mills,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Neu!,
Beasts of Bourbon,
John Holt,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Hashim,
Grauzone,
Moebius,
Marc Almond,
Hoover,
Aswad,
The Kinks,
U.S. Maple,
The Moleskins,
Ultravox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Index,
Black Flag,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.