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 Sierra Leone and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes 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 Barbara Tucker to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultimate Spinach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Germs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Television,
Anthony Braxton,
Todd Rundgren,
Second Layer,
Crooked Eye,
Black Sheep,
10cc,
Deadbeat,
Blake Baxter,
Erykah Badu,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ponytail,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hashim,
the Sonics,
ABC,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eric Dolphy,
Steve Hackett,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mo-Dettes,
Dennis Brown,
The Motions,
The Index,
Khruangbin,
DNA,
Archie Shepp,
Loose Ends,
One Last Wish,
Cameo,
Model 500,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Slits,
Black Bananas,
Marvin Gaye,
Gang of Four,
Boz Scaggs,
Quantec,
Tubeway Army,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Basic Channel,
Fat Boys,
Drexciya,
Fluxion,
Lucky Dragons,
Nils Olav,
Scan 7,
Flash Fearless,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Laurel Aitken,
Minny Pops,
Joy Division,
Sound Behaviour,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Heaven 17,
Suicide,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.