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 Antigua and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Yaz,
ABBA,
Half Japanese,
The Five Americans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Soft Cell,
Darondo,
Sugar Minott,
Camberwell Now,
The Stooges,
Arthur Verocai,
Reagan Youth,
Eli Mardock,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sex Pistols,
Amazonics,
Hasil Adkins,
World's Most,
The Invisible,
The Music Machine,
Grey Daturas,
Max Romeo,
Don Cherry,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Organ,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Au Pairs,
Jandek,
Joyce Sims,
Minny Pops,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Tommy Roe,
Connie Case,
Nirvana,
Fad Gadget,
Nation of Ulysses,
Anthony Braxton,
Mission of Burma,
Adolescents,
Delon & Dalcan,
Khruangbin,
Electric Prunes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lalann,
Pere Ubu,
X-Ray Spex,
The Slackers,
Tears for Fears,
Amon Düül,
Altered Images,
The Buckinghams,
Panda Bear,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pole,
Pagans,
Lou Christie,
Kevin Saunderson,
Derrick Morgan,
Ludus,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Joensuu 1685,
Fela Kuti,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.