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 Bolivia and from Hong Kong.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Panda Bear to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Brand Nubian,
Laurel Aitken,
8 Eyed Spy,
Trumans Water,
Niagra,
Organ,
Glenn Branca,
Goldenarms,
DNA,
The Skatalites,
Intrusion,
Sister Nancy,
These Immortal Souls,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Black Dice,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Black Sheep,
The Birthday Party,
Gregory Isaacs,
Yusef Lateef,
Hoover,
DJ Style,
John Foxx,
Livin' Joy,
Mr. Review,
Delta 5,
Main Source,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Theoretical Girls,
Curtis Mayfield,
Unrelated Segments,
Isaac Hayes,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Busters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rod Modell,
Rekid,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Womack,
New Age Steppers,
Wings,
Eli Mardock,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lalo Schifrin,
Audionom,
Sonic Youth,
Q and Not U,
Toni Rubio,
Stetsasonic,
Michelle Simonal,
Nico,
Flipper,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Harmonia,
Icehouse,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gichy Dan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Mars, Mars, Mars, Mars.
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.