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 Pakistan and from London.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare 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 The Leaves to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Wake,
La Düsseldorf,
Roy Ayers,
the Normal,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bobby Sherman,
Radiohead,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Flag,
Charles Mingus,
The Gories,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Association,
The Angels of Light,
Cal Tjader,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Divine Comedy,
Carl Craig,
Joensuu 1685,
Rapeman,
L. Decosne,
Buzzcocks,
Bauhaus,
Frankie Knuckles,
Roger Hodgson,
Fluxion,
The Doors,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jeff Mills,
Boogie Down Productions,
K-Klass,
Alphaville,
The Standells,
ABC,
The Fire Engines,
The Blues Magoos,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rosa Yemen,
Second Layer,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
LL Cool J,
The Mighty Diamonds,
H. Thieme,
Flash Fearless,
The Count Five,
Adolescents,
Interpol,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harmonia,
The Pop Group,
Lyres,
Gang Starr,
Lower 48,
E-Dancer,
Althea and Donna,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Pretty Things,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.