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 El Salvador and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Funkadelic to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Von Mondo,
Erykah Badu,
Nick Fraelich,
Cheater Slicks,
The Invisible,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Selecter,
Masters at Work,
Vainqueur,
Al Stewart,
The Divine Comedy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pere Ubu,
Jandek,
Slave,
Alison Limerick,
Jeff Mills,
Grandmaster Flash,
Unwound,
Joensuu 1685,
Babytalk,
Surgeon,
Lower 48,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Dead C,
the Bar-Kays,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Amon Düül II,
Man Parrish,
Aswad,
Sun Ra,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Human League,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ten City,
Eli Mardock,
Saccharine Trust,
One Last Wish,
Tubeway Army,
Angry Samoans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Duran Duran,
Subhumans,
Rosa Yemen,
ABBA,
X-101,
U.S. Maple,
Roxy Music,
Iggy Pop,
Cal Tjader,
In Retrospect,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Althea and Donna,
Mad Mike,
Piero Umiliani,
Vladislav Delay,
Ken Boothe,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Neon Judgement,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.