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 Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator 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 Qualms to the punk 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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Bill Wells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Underground Resistance,
The Buckinghams,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Symarip,
The Misunderstood,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
James White and The Blacks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
KRS-One,
New York Dolls,
Johnny Osbourne,
Flash Fearless,
Heaven 17,
Thompson Twins,
Reuben Wilson,
Morten Harket,
The Litter,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eve St. Jones,
CMW,
The Doors,
Black Bananas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Chris & Cosey,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fall,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ituana,
The Blues Magoos,
Roxy Music,
Jandek,
Inner City,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Soul II Soul,
Alton Ellis,
UT,
The Knickerbockers,
Popol Vuh,
Minutemen,
Audionom,
The Moody Blues,
The Busters,
Peter & Gordon,
Technova,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Brick,
Black Pus,
The Barracudas,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Barbara Tucker,
Dark Day,
Dual Sessions,
Public Enemy,
Grauzone,
Fugazi,
Minor Threat,
X-102,
Interpol,
Essential Logic,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.