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 the UAE and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Youth Brigade to the electroclash 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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
Arab on Radar,
Cluster,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Zapp,
Shoche,
Reagan Youth,
Piero Umiliani,
Slick Rick,
Hasil Adkins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Zeros,
Bush Tetras,
The Smoke,
Nick Fraelich,
Television Personalities,
Swans,
The Trojans,
X-101,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Massinfluence,
The Birthday Party,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Roxy Music,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fifty Foot Hose,
cv313,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
ABBA,
10cc,
Deepchord,
Harmonia,
The Grass Roots,
Newcleus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Radiohead,
Moebius,
Barry Ungar,
Mark Hollis,
Delta 5,
Khruangbin,
Hashim,
Robert Görl,
Gabor Szabo,
Alison Limerick,
Flipper,
Black Bananas,
Thompson Twins,
The Slits,
Amon Düül II,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Tommy Roe,
Moss Icon,
Malaria!,
Duran Duran,
Main Source,
Wasted Youth,
Gang of Four,
China Crisis,
Avey Tare,
a-ha,
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.