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 Kenya and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Techniques to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The J.B.'s,
The Leaves,
Wasted Youth,
Prince Buster,
Babytalk,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eric Dolphy,
Arthur Verocai,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ponytail,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lower 48,
Goldenarms,
Lakeside,
Amon Düül II,
The New Christs,
The Alarm Clocks,
Loose Ends,
Yaz,
Rufus Thomas,
Moby Grape,
Angry Samoans,
The Stooges,
The Fortunes,
Patti Smith,
Flipper,
Japan,
Quantec,
Agent Orange,
Silicon Teens,
Frankie Knuckles,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Echospace,
Visage,
Symarip,
Delon & Dalcan,
Wings,
T. Rex,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rapeman,
Bronski Beat,
Sparks,
Flash Fearless,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sugar Minott,
The Residents,
Oneida,
Cybotron,
Robert Wyatt,
R.M.O.,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scrapy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Thee Headcoats,
Harmonia,
10cc,
The Count Five,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Toni Rubio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.