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 Lithuania and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Echospace to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
the Germs,
Flash Fearless,
The Red Krayola,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Seeds,
8 Eyed Spy,
Whodini,
Duran Duran,
Matthew Halsall,
Dead Boys,
Spoonie Gee,
ABBA,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Althea and Donna,
Tom Boy,
New York Dolls,
Smog,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Chris Corsano,
Pylon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
John Lydon,
Altered Images,
Loose Ends,
Wire,
Qualms,
Adolescents,
Fat Boys,
Cameo,
Camouflage,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Yazoo,
The Gun Club,
Michelle Simonal,
World's Most,
the Human League,
Eric Copeland,
Hasil Adkins,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
JFA,
Radio Birdman,
The Vogues,
John Foxx,
Zapp,
10cc,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sonny Sharrock,
Jeff Lynne,
Donny Hathaway,
Panda Bear,
The Kinks,
Silicon Teens,
Bang On A Can,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Matthew Bourne,
The Blues Magoos,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.