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 Qatar and from Sao Paulo.
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 Calgary and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Fad Gadget to the techno 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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ten City,
Eric Dolphy,
Soft Machine,
Unrelated Segments,
Skarface,
Bob Dylan,
Babytalk,
Eden Ahbez,
Bush Tetras,
Buzzcocks,
Rufus Thomas,
The Buckinghams,
Junior Murvin,
Absolute Body Control,
Ultravox,
Kaleidoscope,
Flipper,
Cheater Slicks,
Quando Quango,
The Smiths,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Johnny Clarke,
Oblivians,
Sarah Menescal,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Howard Jones,
Franke,
Country Teasers,
Japan,
Roy Ayers,
The Cure,
Fear,
Alison Limerick,
Ice-T,
Blossom Toes,
Suburban Knight,
Spoonie Gee,
Chrome,
Byron Stingily,
Yellowson,
This Heat,
Albert Ayler,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Harmonia,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ronnie Foster,
The Motions,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sex Pistols,
Make Up,
Yaz,
JFA,
the Normal,
Drexciya,
OOIOO,
Zero Boys,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Charles Mingus,
Sugar Minott,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.