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 Botswana and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Monolake to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
Davy DMX,
Rotary Connection,
Roxy Music,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Cure,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Au Pairs,
Roxette,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Drive Like Jehu,
Roy Ayers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Animal Collective,
Grandmaster Flash,
Electric Prunes,
Von Mondo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Janne Schatter,
Erykah Badu,
The Gladiators,
ABBA,
The Human League,
Chrome,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Wake,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Holt,
Sixth Finger,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Leaves,
Derrick Morgan,
Letta Mbulu,
Brothers Johnson,
Absolute Body Control,
The Slackers,
Parry Music,
Das Ding,
Al Stewart,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Monks,
Alton Ellis,
Pole,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jandek,
The Standells,
Symarip,
Maleditus Sound,
The Dave Clark Five,
Danielle Patucci,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kurtis Blow,
Delon & Dalcan,
New York Dolls,
The Seeds,
Marvin Gaye,
Suicide,
Kayak,
Y Pants,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.