24db wrote:Seriously though if you had to answer some of the most mundane and sometimes just plain stupid questions for over 40 years, then you might get the hump from time to time as well.
I know what you mean, but Edgar could pass for being Van Morrison's brother here...
RS: "You get admired by the techno kids as a Godfather. Is that flattering?"
EF: "No, it's rather amusing.
Blümchen dances on the coffin. And one day they open the coffin, and there's nothing inside."
RS: "How about the label "precursor of trance?""
EF: "Just as little. Firstly precursors and latecomers are only two sides of the same coin. And then preferably Dance rather than Trance."
RS: "And what exactly is that, Dance?"
EF: "Prevention of arteriosclerotic cartilage rigidification."
RS: "Sounds rather vague."
EF: "Correct. You can stop trying to pigeonhole me. [actually he says "You can keep your drawers closed", which is pun on the german saying "jemanden in eine Schublade stecken/to put someone into a drawer" = categorizing so./sth.]
RS: "You'd like that, wouldn't you. The next drawer is labelled "New Age". How does it feel getting elated to guru status by the disciples of esotericism?"
EF: "That's even farther, completely over my head."
RS: "But the New Age charts are not imaginable anymore without Tangerine Dream. Don't you follow that?"
EF: "I don't care."
RS: "Do you listen to New Age?"
EF: "Never. After two massive pieces of cream cake I'd have to puke, and I prefer to keep my carpet clean."
RS: "In what kind of charts would you feel at home then, if not in the New Age charts?"
EF: "The Top Ten of the Billboard Sales Charts wouldn't be half bad."
RS: "In 1997 everywhere the formerly so embarrassing "Krautrock" gets celebrated. What's behind this?"
EF: "I have no idea who came up with the droll idea of unwrapping those mummies again, but I don't like the smell."
RS: "One of those mummies bears your name."
EF: "I neither can nor want to ban other people from gnawing on old bones. It's like this: If business is stagnating, no one takes the bumpy road forward, but they dump the rubbish bin and start to recycle something, anything."
RS: "Doesn't one have to be bloody desperate for relying on Krautrock of all things?"
EF: "Music business is like a blind cow on a big pasture, staring into space, ruminating dutifully."
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That's roughly the first column of the interview. All grammar-, translation- and spelling errors (c) by me.
