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 Ecuador and from Portland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Joy Division to the grunge 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Donny Hathaway,
Thee Headcoats,
Kool Moe Dee,
Iggy Pop,
Robert Wyatt,
Quadrant,
Lucky Dragons,
The Grass Roots,
Amon Düül,
48th St. Collective,
Hoover,
Pole,
Scott Walker,
Outsiders,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lindisfarne,
Ronnie Foster,
Idris Muhammad,
Fluxion,
Kenny Larkin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Arcadia,
Gichy Dan,
Bobby Byrd,
Andrew Hill,
B.T. Express,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
kango's stein massive,
The Wake,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scientists,
Marmalade,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rosa Yemen,
Pulsallama,
Wire,
New Age Steppers,
Byron Stingily,
Hasil Adkins,
Ultra Naté,
The Knickerbockers,
The Mojo Men,
Jacob Miller,
The Angels of Light,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Q65,
Excepter,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Thompson Twins,
Alison Limerick,
PIL,
T. Rex,
Barrington Levy,
Fear,
Anakelly,
Erasure,
Dennis Brown,
Lou Christie,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.