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 Latvia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Magma to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tim Buckley,
Minnie Riperton,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Human League,
Rites of Spring,
The Velvet Underground,
Kerri Chandler,
Japan,
Charles Mingus,
Depeche Mode,
The Seeds,
Funkadelic,
Nick Fraelich,
Wings,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Symarip,
Dennis Brown,
Agitation Free,
Mr. Review,
The Busters,
The Modern Lovers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pere Ubu,
Alice Coltrane,
The Gladiators,
This Heat,
Bluetip,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Searchers,
The Mojo Men,
Y Pants,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kenny Larkin,
Idris Muhammad,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sight & Sound,
Jandek,
The Kinks,
Moby Grape,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cymande,
Robert Görl,
Don Cherry,
The Pretty Things,
Ituana,
Ten City,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Livin' Joy,
ABBA,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
John Lydon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ronan,
The Last Poets,
Camberwell Now,
The United States of America,
Metal Thangz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.