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 Tehran.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 oboe 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 Michelle Simonal to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Scientists,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Blake Baxter,
Au Pairs,
Sun City Girls,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nico,
Audionom,
Alison Limerick,
The Busters,
10cc,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Jacques Brel,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Slits,
Wolf Eyes,
Donny Hathaway,
Skarface,
Blancmange,
Henry Cow,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Erasure,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dorothy Ashby,
Albert Ayler,
Underground Resistance,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
DNA,
DJ Sneak,
Ice-T,
Quando Quango,
Michelle Simonal,
Hasil Adkins,
Radiohead,
Lalann,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Judy Mowatt,
The Seeds,
Minny Pops,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Black Flag,
Cluster,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mark Hollis,
The Raincoats,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gang Gang Dance,
Symarip,
Drexciya,
Banda Bassotti,
L. Decosne,
Jandek,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
June Days,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Selecter,
David Bowie,
Avey Tare,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.