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 the UAE and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 marimba 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 Echospace to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Little Man,
Negative Approach,
Infiniti,
Ice-T,
Underground Resistance,
Nico,
In Retrospect,
The Toasters,
Lightning Bolt,
Thee Headcoats,
Agitation Free,
James White and The Blacks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Can,
T.S.O.L.,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeff Mills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gabor Szabo,
Shuggie Otis,
Roy Ayers,
Eddi Front,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jeff Lynne,
The Red Krayola,
The Monks,
Camouflage,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
X-Ray Spex,
Dead Boys,
Malaria!,
Magazine,
Funkadelic,
Joensuu 1685,
La Düsseldorf,
The Gories,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Basic Channel,
Buzzcocks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Sheep,
The Kinks,
Brand Nubian,
Prince Buster,
Dave Gahan,
Moss Icon,
The Doobie Brothers,
Man Parrish,
Chris & Cosey,
Don Cherry,
48th St. Collective,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Al Stewart,
Boogie Down Productions,
Stetsasonic,
Alphaville,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.