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 Togo and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Angry Samoans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mars,
Jeff Lynne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Curtis Mayfield,
Black Flag,
The Mojo Men,
Accadde A,
Scion,
Crime,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gladiators,
Intrusion,
Metal Thangz,
Minor Threat,
Cheater Slicks,
Duran Duran,
Gang Gang Dance,
Interpol,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Morten Harket,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marmalade,
Carl Craig,
Procol Harum,
Fat Boys,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Velvet Underground,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fuzztones,
Hot Snakes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Frankie Knuckles,
Al Stewart,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Cure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Outsiders,
Joe Finger,
Siglo XX,
The Walker Brothers,
Terry Callier,
The Evens,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Amon Düül II,
The Moleskins,
Gabor Szabo,
PIL,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Arcadia,
the Swans,
Mandrill,
Section 25,
Lucky Dragons,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.