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 Ecuador and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 marimba 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 Warren Ellis to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
David Axelrod,
Lebanon Hanover,
Negative Approach,
Kas Product,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Neu!,
The Human League,
Ituana,
Minutemen,
The Index,
48th St. Collective,
Intrusion,
Jeff Lynne,
Todd Rundgren,
Rosa Yemen,
Drive Like Jehu,
Chris & Cosey,
Peter & Gordon,
Sex Pistols,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Reuben Wilson,
The Buckinghams,
Cecil Taylor,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fugs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eve St. Jones,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Grauzone,
Essential Logic,
Gerry Rafferty,
Neil Young,
Crooked Eye,
Tom Boy,
Funkadelic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eurythmics,
Black Pus,
Scion,
Tomorrow,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gang Gang Dance,
Connie Case,
Sugar Minott,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lucky Dragons,
Stiv Bators,
The Dirtbombs,
Roxy Music,
Cameo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Shuggie Otis,
The Sound,
Prince Buster,
Desert Stars,
The Vogues,
Unrelated Segments,
Robert Hood,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.