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 Iraq and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and London.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon 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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Brick,
The Leaves,
Lebanon Hanover,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Monolake,
Moss Icon,
Alphaville,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pulsallama,
The Fugs,
Terrestrial Tones,
Vladislav Delay,
Althea and Donna,
Scan 7,
The Knickerbockers,
Barry Ungar,
Pere Ubu,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Guru Guru,
Audionom,
The Slits,
The Kinks,
Liliput,
Marshall Jefferson,
Janne Schatter,
Mark Hollis,
Rites of Spring,
Radiopuhelimet,
Goldenarms,
Lucky Dragons,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bobby Womack,
Infiniti,
Yellowson,
The Index,
Grauzone,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Faust,
Skaos,
Soul II Soul,
Dead Boys,
Grandmaster Flash,
Max Romeo,
Peter and Kerry,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bobby Sherman,
Bluetip,
Pussy Galore,
Tres Demented,
Lee Hazlewood,
Darondo,
DJ Style,
Eric Dolphy,
Khruangbin,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.