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 Chile and from Beijing.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 808 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 U.S. Maple to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Chris Corsano,
Neu!,
The Happenings,
Peter & Gordon,
Howard Jones,
Unrelated Segments,
Gichy Dan,
Morten Harket,
Radiohead,
Deadbeat,
The Modern Lovers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
T. Rex,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Barracudas,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Smoke,
Urselle,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Joy Division,
Barrington Levy,
The Electric Prunes,
Pierre Henry,
The Leaves,
Kerri Chandler,
Brand Nubian,
Ohio Players,
Oneida,
The Real Kids,
The Evens,
Roxy Music,
Black Moon,
The Residents,
John Coltrane,
Underground Resistance,
Lalann,
Ultimate Spinach,
Byron Stingily,
The United States of America,
The Cure,
The J.B.'s,
John Cale,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scott Walker,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Audionom,
Yaz,
The Vogues,
David McCallum,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jawbox,
Hot Snakes,
A Certain Ratio,
The Dead C,
Bluetip,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Roxette,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.