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 Bahrain and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Nation of Ulysses to the techno 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Das Ding record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Minor Threat,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Delta 5,
Tubeway Army,
Tim Buckley,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lalo Schifrin,
Magazine,
Amon Düül,
The Birthday Party,
Nils Olav,
The Gories,
John Coltrane,
Quadrant,
LL Cool J,
Inner City,
The Zeros,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jeff Lynne,
Livin' Joy,
Alphaville,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Spandau Ballet,
Brand Nubian,
Soul II Soul,
Bobbi Humphrey,
D'Angelo,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Associates,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Davy DMX,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lou Reed,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ohio Players,
the Bar-Kays,
Half Japanese,
Section 25,
Charles Mingus,
Slave,
The Monochrome Set,
Shuggie Otis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Saints,
Babytalk,
Gang Starr,
John Holt,
Nick Fraelich,
L. Decosne,
8 Eyed Spy,
Barbara Tucker,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Radiohead,
Johnny Clarke,
Gang of Four,
Jandek,
Gang Gang Dance,
Barry Ungar,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.