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 Marshall Islands and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Aaron Thompson to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Erykah Badu,
Deadbeat,
Chris & Cosey,
Deepchord,
Khruangbin,
Sound Behaviour,
Barclay James Harvest,
Supertramp,
The Velvet Underground,
Brass Construction,
Tres Demented,
Mars,
Carl Craig,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Pop Group,
Stockholm Monsters,
L. Decosne,
the Normal,
Delon & Dalcan,
Japan,
K-Klass,
The Zeros,
The Motions,
MDC,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Popol Vuh,
Underground Resistance,
Average White Band,
Mr. Review,
Goldenarms,
Crispy Ambulance,
Boredoms,
Maurizio,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pylon,
Soft Cell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Blake Baxter,
Jerry's Kids,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Hashim,
Fat Boys,
Ornette Coleman,
Audionom,
Funkadelic,
Vladislav Delay,
Eden Ahbez,
Qualms,
Nico,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roger Hodgson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Quantec,
Black Flag,
the Germs,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.