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 Belgium and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 10cc to the funk 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Spoonie Gee,
Camberwell Now,
L. Decosne,
Connie Case,
Sällskapet,
Von Mondo,
Half Japanese,
Cluster,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Grauzone,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Outsiders,
Skarface,
Dead Boys,
The Fortunes,
Gong,
Radio Birdman,
The Moody Blues,
D'Angelo,
Tomorrow,
Susan Cadogan,
Moss Icon,
The Leaves,
Masters at Work,
Steve Hackett,
Peter & Gordon,
The American Breed,
Junior Murvin,
Infiniti,
Maleditus Sound,
AZ,
Yellowson,
The Searchers,
The Barracudas,
Joensuu 1685,
Excepter,
Bang On A Can,
Fatback Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
a-ha,
Desert Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
E-Dancer,
Pet Shop Boys,
Country Teasers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nils Olav,
Young Marble Giants,
Pharoah Sanders,
Interpol,
Aural Exciters,
Graham Central Station,
Scott Walker,
Agitation Free,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Toni Rubio,
Bobby Sherman,
Tommy Roe,
Ossler,
Jeff Mills,
The Doobie Brothers,
Panda Bear,
Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock.
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.