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 United Kingdom and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 organ 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 Sound Behaviour to the punk 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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Technova,
The Detroit Cobras,
Main Source,
Pet Shop Boys,
Franke,
Eric B and Rakim,
Junior Murvin,
Camberwell Now,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Motions,
Harry Pussy,
Simply Red,
Black Sheep,
Quadrant,
Tim Buckley,
The Skatalites,
Gang of Four,
The Move,
Flamin' Groovies,
Magma,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Smiths,
Soul II Soul,
Matthew Halsall,
Patti Smith,
Chris & Cosey,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
June of 44,
Agent Orange,
Cal Tjader,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Todd Rundgren,
The Invisible,
Brick,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Aural Exciters,
The Electric Prunes,
The Names,
Easy Going,
Kerrie Biddell,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Judy Mowatt,
The Vogues,
Q and Not U,
The Last Poets,
Rufus Thomas,
Eurythmics,
Fluxion,
Silicon Teens,
Sarah Menescal,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rites of Spring,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Depeche Mode,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Amazonics,
The Modern Lovers,
cv313,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Youth Brigade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.