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 Peru and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Depeche Mode to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Circle Jerks,
The Gun Club,
Lightning Bolt,
Kaleidoscope,
Flash Fearless,
Piero Umiliani,
The Golliwogs,
Byron Stingily,
The Slackers,
Matthew Halsall,
Toni Rubio,
Rosa Yemen,
Pagans,
The Misunderstood,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mandrill,
Unrelated Segments,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
John Holt,
Archie Shepp,
Jacob Miller,
Magma,
Funkadelic,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pierre Henry,
June of 44,
Tom Boy,
Pet Shop Boys,
kango's stein massive,
Organ,
The Music Machine,
The Fall,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bootsy Collins,
Easy Going,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Althea and Donna,
Charles Mingus,
Public Enemy,
Joyce Sims,
Yusef Lateef,
Sixth Finger,
Motorama,
cv313,
Surgeon,
Sonic Youth,
Pylon,
Amazonics,
La Düsseldorf,
Intrusion,
Lee Hazlewood,
Country Teasers,
Barrington Levy,
Man Parrish,
Accadde A,
Sex Pistols,
Delon & Dalcan,
Janne Schatter,
Essential Logic,
Ten City,
Amon Düül II,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.