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 Romania and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Neu! to the jazz 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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Second Layer,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Detroit Cobras,
Skaos,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Judy Mowatt,
Supertramp,
The Monochrome Set,
Gong,
Pagans,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tommy Roe,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Basic Channel,
Easy Going,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fortunes,
Ten City,
CMW,
Barclay James Harvest,
Barry Ungar,
It's A Beautiful Day,
John Cale,
The Star Department,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
KRS-One,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cheater Slicks,
Lyres,
Boredoms,
Ice-T,
Interpol,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Stockholm Monsters,
Brand Nubian,
China Crisis,
Essential Logic,
Lou Christie,
Make Up,
Negative Approach,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Monks,
MC5,
Bill Wells,
Groovy Waters,
Scratch Acid,
Eurythmics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mr. Review,
The Move,
ABC,
Harry Pussy,
X-102,
Alton Ellis,
The Doors,
Marine Girls,
Glambeats Corp.,
Suicide,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.