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 Burundi and from London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 rhodes 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 Bill Wells to the techno 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 The Mummies. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler 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?
OOIOO,
Tomorrow,
Sonny Sharrock,
Avey Tare,
Radiopuhelimet,
Anakelly,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ituana,
Sixth Finger,
Fear,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Al Stewart,
Lalann,
Au Pairs,
Sandy B,
Severed Heads,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Black Dice,
Rites of Spring,
The Toasters,
Pagans,
Todd Rundgren,
Jesper Dahlback,
Patti Smith,
Camberwell Now,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pussy Galore,
Kerri Chandler,
Sugar Minott,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Visage,
Darondo,
Massinfluence,
The Misunderstood,
Ohio Players,
Stetsasonic,
Kayak,
Con Funk Shun,
Wally Richardson,
Suicide,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scratch Acid,
L. Decosne,
The J.B.'s,
Adolescents,
Banda Bassotti,
The Last Poets,
Newcleus,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter and Kerry,
Bad Manners,
Ultimate Spinach,
Basic Channel,
Eric Copeland,
Grey Daturas,
Cybotron,
X-Ray Spex,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.