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 Singapore and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 synthesizer 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 Camberwell Now to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Nils Olav,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arcadia,
LL Cool J,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Joensuu 1685,
X-102,
Sam Rivers,
Minnie Riperton,
Adolescents,
Underground Resistance,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Parry Music,
Thee Headcoats,
The Blues Magoos,
Lou Reed,
Aural Exciters,
The Smiths,
Toni Rubio,
Alice Coltrane,
Roxy Music,
Gang of Four,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dual Sessions,
the Germs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Brothers Johnson,
Television,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Slick Rick,
Desert Stars,
Pantytec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Slackers,
U.S. Maple,
Cal Tjader,
Roy Ayers,
Michelle Simonal,
This Heat,
Hardrive,
Don Cherry,
Yellowson,
The Misunderstood,
Dawn Penn,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pole,
Idris Muhammad,
Radiohead,
Byron Stingily,
Public Enemy,
Dennis Brown,
R.M.O.,
Bush Tetras,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.