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 Nepal and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Sonic Youth to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Frankie Knuckles record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Boogie Down Productions,
Young Marble Giants,
Vainqueur,
Glambeats Corp.,
Donny Hathaway,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Quadrant,
Tres Demented,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Isaac Hayes,
Sällskapet,
Sonic Youth,
MC5,
The Modern Lovers,
Unwound,
Letta Mbulu,
Fear,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Grey Daturas,
The Vogues,
Supertramp,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Human League,
The New Christs,
OOIOO,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Terrestrial Tones,
These Immortal Souls,
Quantec,
Bill Near,
China Crisis,
K-Klass,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Albert Ayler,
Urselle,
Outsiders,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Byron Stingily,
The Blackbyrds,
Godley & Creme,
Howard Jones,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gang Gang Dance,
cv313,
Little Man,
R.M.O.,
Cecil Taylor,
The Dave Clark Five,
Matthew Bourne,
Anakelly,
The Fall,
Lyres,
kango's stein massive,
Gastr Del Sol,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.