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 Madagascar and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
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 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 Anthony Braxton to the rap 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 Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spandau Ballet 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
The Gap Band,
Gang Starr,
U.S. Maple,
Delta 5,
Easy Going,
Arab on Radar,
LL Cool J,
Shuggie Otis,
Sugar Minott,
Marvin Gaye,
Roxy Music,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Barrington Levy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Graham Central Station,
Cameo,
Black Sheep,
Quando Quango,
The Blackbyrds,
The Velvet Underground,
Wings,
Organ,
the Germs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cymande,
Blossom Toes,
Mark Hollis,
Sällskapet,
The Misunderstood,
Popol Vuh,
Kurtis Blow,
Vladislav Delay,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pylon,
Crash Course in Science,
Little Man,
Ronnie Foster,
DNA,
Half Japanese,
Leonard Cohen,
Rapeman,
Whodini,
Prince Buster,
David McCallum,
Qualms,
Eden Ahbez,
Pole,
Depeche Mode,
Skarface,
The Evens,
The Music Machine,
Black Moon,
The New Christs,
Sound Behaviour,
Wolf Eyes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dead Boys,
Brand Nubian,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Blancmange,
Television, Television, Television, Television.
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.