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 Vietnam and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Chris & Cosey to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Fort Wilson Riot,
David McCallum,
Matthew Halsall,
The Buckinghams,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gastr Del Sol,
Juan Atkins,
Eve St. Jones,
Outsiders,
Cameo,
Visage,
The Divine Comedy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Altered Images,
Tears for Fears,
Siglo XX,
Man Parrish,
8 Eyed Spy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris Corsano,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Magazine,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Alphaville,
Tres Demented,
Johnny Osbourne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Barbara Tucker,
Johnny Clarke,
Spoonie Gee,
F. McDonald,
Yaz,
The Associates,
Bobby Womack,
Kas Product,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lungfish,
Toni Rubio,
H. Thieme,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
CMW,
Kerri Chandler,
The Five Americans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Sound,
Scientists,
Iggy Pop,
Accadde A,
Aaron Thompson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Marc Almond,
Curtis Mayfield,
Buzzcocks,
Patti Smith,
Supertramp,
Roxy Music,
Second Layer,
Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail.
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.