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 Israel and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Au Pairs to the jazz 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 The Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Donny Hathaway,
Avey Tare,
Lightning Bolt,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
X-Ray Spex,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rufus Thomas,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nas,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Freddie Wadling,
Dave Gahan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gong,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Idris Muhammad,
Roxy Music,
The Moody Blues,
Harmonia,
Deepchord,
Barry Ungar,
Infiniti,
Country Teasers,
Schoolly D,
Make Up,
Sixth Finger,
Kaleidoscope,
Dead Boys,
Brass Construction,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lou Christie,
Yellowson,
Suburban Knight,
Sandy B,
H. Thieme,
These Immortal Souls,
B.T. Express,
Supertramp,
Grauzone,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ponytail,
K-Klass,
JFA,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Yaz,
Black Moon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
ABBA,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Todd Rundgren,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Archie Shepp,
Organ,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.