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 Taiwan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sparks to the grunge 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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Duran Duran,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Moleskins,
Parry Music,
Joey Negro,
David McCallum,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roger Hodgson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mars,
The Move,
The J.B.'s,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Siglo XX,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Vladislav Delay,
The Count Five,
Pagans,
Section 25,
Jeff Mills,
Masters at Work,
Newcleus,
8 Eyed Spy,
Boz Scaggs,
Minor Threat,
Judy Mowatt,
Tres Demented,
Kool Moe Dee,
Livin' Joy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Theoretical Girls,
Brand Nubian,
Fluxion,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Radiohead,
Urselle,
Main Source,
Wolf Eyes,
Lou Reed,
Girls At Our Best!,
Massinfluence,
Cheater Slicks,
Cymande,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Litter,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Al Stewart,
Guru Guru,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Fall,
Sugar Minott,
Ohio Players,
The Shadows of Knight,
Outsiders,
The Motions,
Bronski Beat,
The Names,
Average White Band,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.