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 Jordan and from Seoul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Maurizio to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Symarip,
Oneida,
La Düsseldorf,
the Germs,
The Remains,
OOIOO,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Slits,
Juan Atkins,
Mo-Dettes,
Ronnie Foster,
Supertramp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
June of 44,
Alton Ellis,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Move,
Ituana,
Vladislav Delay,
U.S. Maple,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Neon Judgement,
Matthew Bourne,
The Cure,
Ludus,
Japan,
The Knickerbockers,
The Busters,
Dead Boys,
The Star Department,
Quando Quango,
Sonic Youth,
Essential Logic,
Underground Resistance,
Technova,
Nirvana,
Roger Hodgson,
JFA,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Soft Cell,
Niagra,
The Black Dice,
Bluetip,
The Buckinghams,
The Blackbyrds,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Five Americans,
the Association,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wire,
The Fugs,
Wolf Eyes,
X-102,
Yellowson,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Human League,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ken Boothe,
Cluster,
Marmalade,
Peter & Gordon,
Franke,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.