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 Bolivia and from Beijing.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Livin' Joy to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Throbbing Gristle,
JFA,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gang of Four,
Jeff Mills,
The Invisible,
The Victims,
Heaven 17,
X-Ray Spex,
The Neon Judgement,
Oneida,
Ronnie Foster,
Minny Pops,
The Cosmic Jokers,
David Bowie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gastr Del Sol,
Excepter,
The Sonics,
The J.B.'s,
Yusef Lateef,
Jeff Lynne,
Juan Atkins,
Tropical Tobacco,
Anakelly,
Reuben Wilson,
The Techniques,
The Smoke,
Sam Rivers,
The Moleskins,
Mark Hollis,
Sällskapet,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cymande,
Delta 5,
Guru Guru,
Brick,
The United States of America,
Masters at Work,
World's Most,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
These Immortal Souls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Remains,
Eric Copeland,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Audionom,
Tommy Roe,
Dark Day,
Flamin' Groovies,
Funkadelic,
John Foxx,
UT,
Patti Smith,
Zapp,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brothers Johnson,
Marvin Gaye,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.