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 Bahrain and from Spokane.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kool Moe Dee to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang of Four record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Anakelly,
Throbbing Gristle,
Motorama,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lucky Dragons,
Malaria!,
Section 25,
DNA,
Yaz,
Kenny Larkin,
Popol Vuh,
Minor Threat,
Adolescents,
Infiniti,
Skarface,
Robert Hood,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Althea and Donna,
The Divine Comedy,
The Walker Brothers,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Raincoats,
Rod Modell,
These Immortal Souls,
Chris & Cosey,
Groovy Waters,
The Knickerbockers,
The Buckinghams,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
JFA,
Connie Case,
Kool Moe Dee,
Toni Rubio,
Oblivians,
Depeche Mode,
Hoover,
Man Eating Sloth,
Max Romeo,
Gong,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Evens,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Real Kids,
Yazoo,
Aswad,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Pretty Things,
Electric Prunes,
Eric Dolphy,
Tears for Fears,
Juan Atkins,
Alice Coltrane,
The Monks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Skaos,
L. Decosne,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.