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 South Africa and from Winnipeg.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rufus Thomas to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Warren Ellis,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Names,
Gang Gang Dance,
Derrick Morgan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
JFA,
Das Ding,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Steve Hackett,
Davy DMX,
La Düsseldorf,
FM Einheit,
Mad Mike,
Skarface,
The Gap Band,
The Trojans,
Fad Gadget,
Zero Boys,
Danielle Patucci,
Rekid,
The Last Poets,
Gabor Szabo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Invisible,
The Real Kids,
The Gladiators,
The Pop Group,
Quadrant,
the Swans,
New York Dolls,
Archie Shepp,
Flamin' Groovies,
Whodini,
Public Enemy,
Fela Kuti,
Radiopuhelimet,
Minny Pops,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Misunderstood,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Index,
The Detroit Cobras,
D'Angelo,
Faust,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Dennis Brown,
Hoover,
Henry Cow,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rakim,
the Bar-Kays,
Reuben Wilson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Basic Channel,
Electric Prunes,
Bad Manners,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.