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 Liechtenstein and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 theremin 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 Janne Schatter to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Supertramp,
The Searchers,
X-102,
Angry Samoans,
The Gladiators,
Agent Orange,
Jeff Mills,
Vainqueur,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Danielle Patucci,
Ohio Players,
Yaz,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
U.S. Maple,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Drexciya,
Peter and Kerry,
Stetsasonic,
David McCallum,
Cluster,
Gang Starr,
Niagra,
The Monochrome Set,
Amon Düül,
Public Enemy,
Average White Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Soul Sonic Force,
a-ha,
The Black Dice,
Qualms,
Sarah Menescal,
Franke,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ten City,
R.M.O.,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bobby Sherman,
Wally Richardson,
Erasure,
Skriet,
OOIOO,
Arcadia,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sam Rivers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Steve Hackett,
Aloha Tigers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Skatalites,
Thompson Twins,
Ronnie Foster,
Pylon,
Pantaleimon,
10cc,
Quantec,
B.T. Express,
Kaleidoscope,
The Blackbyrds,
Scott Walker,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.