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 Yemen and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Glasgow.
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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Names,
Groovy Waters,
John Coltrane,
Ronan,
The Sonics,
Bronski Beat,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Evens,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Misunderstood,
The Mojo Men,
This Heat,
Little Man,
10cc,
The Electric Prunes,
EPMD,
The Dirtbombs,
New Order,
Wally Richardson,
Soulsonic Force,
The Modern Lovers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Vogues,
The Monochrome Set,
The Walker Brothers,
MC5,
The Skatalites,
La Düsseldorf,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Crooked Eye,
E-Dancer,
The Doobie Brothers,
Soft Cell,
Brick,
Vainqueur,
Colin Newman,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
New York Dolls,
Marc Almond,
The Cure,
Echospace,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
ABBA,
The Slits,
Matthew Bourne,
The Velvet Underground,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Index,
Joey Negro,
Youth Brigade,
The Barracudas,
The Saints,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Barry Ungar,
Andrew Hill,
Roy Ayers,
Y Pants,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.