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 Luxembourg and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 808 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 In Retrospect to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Eden Ahbez,
Animal Collective,
Sam Rivers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Saints,
Alton Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bill Near,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Slackers,
The Fuzztones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ten City,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Franke,
Fela Kuti,
Kerri Chandler,
Tres Demented,
Ice-T,
Minor Threat,
Bill Wells,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ossler,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Harry Pussy,
The Dead C,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dennis Brown,
Marshall Jefferson,
Hoover,
Robert Görl,
Nik Kershaw,
The Fall,
Marvin Gaye,
Mad Mike,
The Sonics,
a-ha,
Average White Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scan 7,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Essential Logic,
Parry Music,
Marc Almond,
Bluetip,
New Order,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gang Starr,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Joe Finger,
Alice Coltrane,
KRS-One,
Man Parrish,
The Searchers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop.
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.