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 Fiji and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Average White Band to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
ABBA,
Boz Scaggs,
Rotary Connection,
Animal Collective,
Stereo Dub,
Andrew Hill,
Organ,
This Heat,
Goldenarms,
Leonard Cohen,
Alton Ellis,
Al Stewart,
Sixth Finger,
Roger Hodgson,
Half Japanese,
The Black Dice,
The Happenings,
Los Fastidios,
The Names,
Tubeway Army,
Gong,
Dave Gahan,
Danielle Patucci,
Ice-T,
Crime,
Camouflage,
Rapeman,
Lucky Dragons,
Sexual Harrassment,
H. Thieme,
Johnny Clarke,
Nils Olav,
Wire,
Technova,
Zero Boys,
Tommy Roe,
Oblivians,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Deadbeat,
Pulsallama,
Bauhaus,
The Gap Band,
Moby Grape,
The Standells,
Hashim,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mark Hollis,
Rufus Thomas,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Zeros,
Alison Limerick,
Pharoah Sanders,
JFA,
New Age Steppers,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Count Five,
Cal Tjader,
Marine Girls,
The Moleskins,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
T.S.O.L.,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.