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 Maldives and from Halifax.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro 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 Cowsills to the crunk 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Men They Couldn't Hang record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
The Fire Engines,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Monochrome Set,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Althea and Donna,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Evens,
Roger Hodgson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Steve Hackett,
Tommy Roe,
Basic Channel,
Scan 7,
Ice-T,
kango's stein massive,
Guru Guru,
Black Moon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Crispian St. Peters,
Deakin,
T. Rex,
Little Man,
Junior Murvin,
Lightning Bolt,
Tres Demented,
Godley & Creme,
Delta 5,
Interpol,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Johnny Clarke,
Hasil Adkins,
10cc,
Frankie Knuckles,
Groovy Waters,
Infiniti,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mark Hollis,
Mandrill,
Supertramp,
Ponytail,
Ituana,
Mission of Burma,
Nirvana,
ABC,
the Association,
Boredoms,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Visage,
Reuben Wilson,
Henry Cow,
DNA,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Quadrant,
Archie Shepp,
Byron Stingily,
Sixth Finger,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.