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 Australia and from Tehran.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 oboe 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 Avey Tare to the electroclash 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All The Durutti Column tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Remains 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Rakim,
The J.B.'s,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Television,
Anthony Braxton,
Yaz,
The Doors,
Eli Mardock,
Silicon Teens,
Quadrant,
Wasted Youth,
The Move,
Junior Murvin,
Kerri Chandler,
Minnie Riperton,
Jacob Miller,
Nils Olav,
Anakelly,
Black Flag,
Rod Modell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ash Ra Tempel,
AZ,
The Gun Club,
Desert Stars,
Toni Rubio,
Jimmy McGriff,
Inner City,
Mo-Dettes,
Kenny Larkin,
June of 44,
Second Layer,
UT,
The Fire Engines,
Isaac Hayes,
The Names,
Hashim,
cv313,
The Pretty Things,
Bush Tetras,
Infiniti,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Vogues,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eric Copeland,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Trojans,
Pagans,
The Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
Accadde A,
Subhumans,
Reuben Wilson,
Spoonie Gee,
Sugar Minott,
Gichy Dan,
Minor Threat,
The Moody Blues,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.