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 Marshall Islands and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Heavy D & The Boyz 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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang On A Can,
Motorama,
The Durutti Column,
Gong,
Reagan Youth,
The Smiths,
The Velvet Underground,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Cramps,
Zapp,
Hoover,
The Cure,
Desert Stars,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Red Krayola,
The Cowsills,
The Slackers,
Technova,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Litter,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cecil Taylor,
Juan Atkins,
Bob Dylan,
Fatback Band,
Sixth Finger,
E-Dancer,
Tomorrow,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
MDC,
Erykah Badu,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
AZ,
The Techniques,
Scion,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Fad Gadget,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Association,
Lindisfarne,
Kerri Chandler,
The Busters,
Amon Düül II,
Jandek,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nik Kershaw,
Mandrill,
kango's stein massive,
8 Eyed Spy,
Yusef Lateef,
K-Klass,
10cc,
The Mummies,
Lucky Dragons,
Goldenarms,
B.T. Express,
The Fuzztones,
Crime,
Minnie Riperton,
The Black Dice,
Gang Starr,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.