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 Saudi Arabia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Donald Byrd,
A Certain Ratio,
Vladislav Delay,
Marine Girls,
La Düsseldorf,
Lucky Dragons,
The Angels of Light,
Jeru the Damaja,
Model 500,
Delta 5,
Lee Hazlewood,
Royal Trux,
The Gories,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sight & Sound,
Heaven 17,
Moby Grape,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nico,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cybotron,
Funkadelic,
Scan 7,
Masters at Work,
Harmonia,
Pagans,
UT,
The Toasters,
Throbbing Gristle,
OOIOO,
a-ha,
Glenn Branca,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bluetip,
June of 44,
Au Pairs,
Nas,
The Monochrome Set,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nirvana,
Fear,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Basic Channel,
Agitation Free,
Bush Tetras,
The Mojo Men,
Trumans Water,
Moebius,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pussy Galore,
Derrick Morgan,
Rakim,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dual Sessions,
Audionom,
The Golliwogs,
Jeff Mills,
David McCallum,
Ten City,
The Velvet Underground,
Chris Corsano,
Flipper,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.