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 New Zealand and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Audionom to the jazz 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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Lindisfarne,
The Gap Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Negative Approach,
Nico,
Ohio Players,
The Stooges,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mars,
Amon Düül,
Metal Thangz,
Nick Fraelich,
Derrick Morgan,
Nas,
Dual Sessions,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Laurel Aitken,
Altered Images,
Charles Mingus,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Remains,
The Evens,
Yaz,
the Human League,
Fear,
Donald Byrd,
8 Eyed Spy,
June of 44,
Organ,
FM Einheit,
The Wake,
Kevin Saunderson,
Young Marble Giants,
Wolf Eyes,
Avey Tare,
Skarface,
Mantronix,
Tres Demented,
Cal Tjader,
The Fire Engines,
Bobby Sherman,
K-Klass,
the Normal,
Pet Shop Boys,
David Bowie,
The Tremeloes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Marvin Gaye,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Erykah Badu,
Pulsallama,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Public Image Ltd.,
Moebius,
The Barracudas,
Deepchord,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Reuben Wilson,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.