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 Kiribati and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 güiro 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 Laurel Aitken to the rap 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Minny Pops,
Popol Vuh,
Pantytec,
Kevin Saunderson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Main Source,
Blancmange,
Yusef Lateef,
Sixth Finger,
Tommy Roe,
Fela Kuti,
Yazoo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Laurel Aitken,
The Residents,
The Doors,
Sun Ra,
Blake Baxter,
Fat Boys,
John Lydon,
The Associates,
Black Flag,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ken Boothe,
Arcadia,
Brass Construction,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Skriet,
Roxy Music,
Camberwell Now,
Infiniti,
Neil Young,
The Fire Engines,
Duran Duran,
Second Layer,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Average White Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Monochrome Set,
Echospace,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Gang Dance,
KRS-One,
The Seeds,
DJ Style,
The Smiths,
Cameo,
Grandmaster Flash,
Agent Orange,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Kinks,
Boz Scaggs,
Whodini,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.