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 San Marino and from Philadelphia.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Lucky Dragons to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Bobby Sherman,
Vainqueur,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Joe Finger,
Monolake,
The Cure,
Livin' Joy,
The Victims,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Wire,
Angry Samoans,
Pierre Henry,
In Retrospect,
D'Angelo,
Grandmaster Flash,
Deakin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jimmy McGriff,
Reagan Youth,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bush Tetras,
Crash Course in Science,
The Cowsills,
Tears for Fears,
Shoche,
Unwound,
Guru Guru,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tropical Tobacco,
Wasted Youth,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Toni Rubio,
Adolescents,
Main Source,
Jerry's Kids,
Skarface,
Y Pants,
Man Eating Sloth,
Franke,
Tomorrow,
Animal Collective,
E-Dancer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Steve Hackett,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kevin Saunderson,
Josef K,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Doors,
The Barracudas,
Barry Ungar,
The Black Dice,
Flash Fearless,
The Last Poets,
Isaac Hayes,
Agent Orange,
Cybotron,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.