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 Malta and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 10cc to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
The Monochrome Set,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Toni Rubio,
Juan Atkins,
Section 25,
Avey Tare,
The Techniques,
Eurythmics,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jerry's Kids,
48th St. Collective,
The Modern Lovers,
UT,
Yazoo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pantytec,
FM Einheit,
Infiniti,
John Foxx,
Barrington Levy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Babytalk,
The Flesh Eaters,
a-ha,
Grandmaster Flash,
Tres Demented,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fluxion,
Magazine,
Kenny Larkin,
New Age Steppers,
Interpol,
Depeche Mode,
Quantec,
Drexciya,
Gregory Isaacs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
David Bowie,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Mummies,
Ponytail,
Blake Baxter,
L. Decosne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ken Boothe,
Simply Red,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Thompson Twins,
Minnie Riperton,
The Fall,
Joe Smooth,
Gichy Dan,
Das Ding,
The Mojo Men,
Brand Nubian,
The Stooges,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ohio Players,
Brick,
The Monks, The Monks, The Monks, The Monks.
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.