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 Azerbaijan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Deakin to the grime 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 Chris Corsano. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
OOIOO,
Wally Richardson,
Excepter,
Hashim,
Panda Bear,
B.T. Express,
The Walker Brothers,
Jeff Lynne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jandek,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Das Ding,
Deakin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Toni Rubio,
Echospace,
Urselle,
John Cale,
Grandmaster Flash,
T. Rex,
Qualms,
Warsaw,
Ludus,
The Alarm Clocks,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hasil Adkins,
Scratch Acid,
The Golliwogs,
Groovy Waters,
The Pop Group,
Mark Hollis,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wolf Eyes,
The Saints,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sight & Sound,
the Association,
Hardrive,
Silicon Teens,
Kas Product,
Amazonics,
Peter and Kerry,
Hoover,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Khruangbin,
Barrington Levy,
Ronan,
Iggy Pop,
Johnny Clarke,
Ralphi Rosario,
Derrick Morgan,
Roger Hodgson,
Minor Threat,
Moebius,
The Grass Roots,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.