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 Netherlands and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Marshall Jefferson to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Connie Case,
Robert Hood,
Visage,
Mandrill,
Pagans,
Junior Murvin,
Chrome,
Little Man,
Lindisfarne,
Babytalk,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Normal,
The Happenings,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Associates,
Henry Cow,
Television,
Jacob Miller,
Bauhaus,
48th St. Collective,
The Tremeloes,
Amon Düül II,
China Crisis,
Sonic Youth,
The Seeds,
DJ Style,
Massinfluence,
Brothers Johnson,
Alton Ellis,
June Days,
Slick Rick,
Gerry Rafferty,
Arthur Verocai,
Urselle,
Sexual Harrassment,
Public Enemy,
Shoche,
Soul Sonic Force,
Freddie Wadling,
Echospace,
Heaven 17,
UT,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fluxion,
Deadbeat,
AZ,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Masters at Work,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Boredoms,
Robert Görl,
Barrington Levy,
Lou Christie,
Anthony Braxton,
Swell Maps,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Motions,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.