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 Argentina and from Taipei.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 New Order to the disco 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Essential Logic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Starr,
The Cowsills,
Eric Dolphy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Anakelly,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Last Poets,
Icehouse,
The American Breed,
The Knickerbockers,
Lou Reed,
Can,
Grauzone,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Man Parrish,
Scion,
Lakeside,
the Soft Cell,
Arcadia,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Soft Cell,
Avey Tare,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Minor Threat,
the Human League,
The J.B.'s,
Cecil Taylor,
Intrusion,
Public Enemy,
The Selecter,
Junior Murvin,
Main Source,
The Evens,
Bootsy Collins,
Unwound,
Dennis Brown,
The Busters,
Groovy Waters,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Stereo Dub,
June of 44,
Archie Shepp,
Grey Daturas,
Lightning Bolt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ice-T,
Sun Ra,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eddi Front,
Camouflage,
The United States of America,
Barclay James Harvest,
Wasted Youth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Black Moon,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.