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 Azerbaijan and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro 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 Joe Smooth to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wally Richardson,
Nico,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
FM Einheit,
Main Source,
Wasted Youth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Aloha Tigers,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Womack,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Darondo,
Bad Manners,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Young Rascals,
Saccharine Trust,
Isaac Hayes,
UT,
Jacob Miller,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Depeche Mode,
The Motions,
Hardrive,
Jerry's Kids,
Hashim,
Joe Smooth,
Kurtis Blow,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Frankie Knuckles,
Popol Vuh,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jandek,
Aural Exciters,
Banda Bassotti,
La Düsseldorf,
Echospace,
JFA,
Brick,
Bang On A Can,
Monolake,
R.M.O.,
Roxette,
Boogie Down Productions,
Boz Scaggs,
Wire,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Con Funk Shun,
Neil Young,
The Slackers,
Black Flag,
Buzzcocks,
Rosa Yemen,
The Five Americans,
Second Layer,
The Remains,
The Fall,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.