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 Croatia and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 spring reverb 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 The Barracudas to the disco 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 The Selecter. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Brand Nubian,
T. Rex,
Bill Near,
Joe Finger,
Janne Schatter,
The Knickerbockers,
Pole,
Jeff Lynne,
Adolescents,
Kayak,
Oneida,
The Selecter,
Alison Limerick,
Duran Duran,
The Kinks,
Main Source,
kango's stein massive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jerry Gold Smith,
One Last Wish,
Swans,
The Doobie Brothers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wally Richardson,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Smiths,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Easy Going,
The Offenders,
Television Personalities,
The Misunderstood,
The New Christs,
Organ,
Al Stewart,
Clear Light,
The Move,
Slick Rick,
The Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Happenings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The United States of America,
ABBA,
Bill Wells,
Sun City Girls,
Todd Rundgren,
Pulsallama,
Joensuu 1685,
Moss Icon,
The Star Department,
T.S.O.L.,
Wings,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Skaos,
Shuggie Otis,
Junior Murvin,
Gichy Dan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Iggy Pop,
PIL,
Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor.
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.