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 Iceland and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Curtis Mayfield to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Robert Wyatt,
Ituana,
The Techniques,
Pantytec,
Von Mondo,
The Mojo Men,
Blake Baxter,
The Motions,
Deakin,
The Doobie Brothers,
Animal Collective,
The Fire Engines,
The Cure,
Chrome,
Archie Shepp,
Basic Channel,
Japan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Qualms,
One Last Wish,
AZ,
Sun City Girls,
Dark Day,
Depeche Mode,
The Vogues,
Saccharine Trust,
Clear Light,
Lyres,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pagans,
Scratch Acid,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fatback Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sonic Youth,
Intrusion,
Stockholm Monsters,
Hashim,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
JFA,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Spoonie Gee,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Brand Nubian,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Beau Brummels,
Hasil Adkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kurtis Blow,
Marine Girls,
Arab on Radar,
Derrick Morgan,
Lungfish,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
ABBA, ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.
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.