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 Thailand and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Lou Reed 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 Fela Kuti 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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Visage,
Harmonia,
Scott Walker,
Matthew Halsall,
Unrelated Segments,
Quando Quango,
Blake Baxter,
Essential Logic,
Curtis Mayfield,
ABBA,
Silicon Teens,
Colin Newman,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
ABC,
Shoche,
Josef K,
Eden Ahbez,
John Cale,
Johnny Clarke,
Leonard Cohen,
Pantaleimon,
Scan 7,
Piero Umiliani,
Supertramp,
Yazoo,
Laurel Aitken,
Echospace,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dark Day,
Stiv Bators,
Drexciya,
China Crisis,
Buzzcocks,
The Saints,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Mummies,
MC5,
Sight & Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Barracudas,
Brass Construction,
The Real Kids,
E-Dancer,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bauhaus,
Marvin Gaye,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Quadrant,
Infiniti,
Brothers Johnson,
The Martian,
Gang of Four,
LL Cool J,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pulsallama,
Electric Prunes,
The Black Dice,
Prince Buster,
Eli Mardock,
Barrington Levy,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.