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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 linndrum 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glambeats Corp. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Cybotron,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eli Mardock,
Ultravox,
Audionom,
Angry Samoans,
Dave Gahan,
Alison Limerick,
Sixth Finger,
Neil Young,
The Neon Judgement,
Wally Richardson,
8 Eyed Spy,
Underground Resistance,
Television Personalities,
Scott Walker,
The Smoke,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Carl Craig,
The Leaves,
Oneida,
The Count Five,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Marc Almond,
Vainqueur,
Second Layer,
Janne Schatter,
Nils Olav,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Arthur Verocai,
Minor Threat,
Wings,
Marcia Griffiths,
John Lydon,
Scrapy,
ABBA,
Scratch Acid,
Young Marble Giants,
Juan Atkins,
Crooked Eye,
Alice Coltrane,
Yaz,
Soft Cell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Man Eating Sloth,
ABC,
Das Ding,
Laurel Aitken,
Organ,
The Raincoats,
Dual Sessions,
Mandrill,
Index,
OOIOO,
Scientists,
Barry Ungar,
Sällskapet,
Ponytail,
Harmonia,
Wolf Eyes,
CMW,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.