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 Tunisia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 June of 44 to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Altered Images,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Circle Jerks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Swans,
Erykah Badu,
Main Source,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Liliput,
Drexciya,
Gang Starr,
The Evens,
John Holt,
Funky Four + One,
Masters at Work,
Connie Case,
Public Enemy,
Whodini,
Reagan Youth,
Maleditus Sound,
Steve Hackett,
Morten Harket,
Neil Young,
Dorothy Ashby,
Von Mondo,
David Axelrod,
Bluetip,
Organ,
Bobby Sherman,
Pere Ubu,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Goldenarms,
Vainqueur,
Laurel Aitken,
Howard Jones,
Rotary Connection,
Pole,
Bill Wells,
Grauzone,
Model 500,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rites of Spring,
The Index,
Shoche,
Visage,
Lalo Schifrin,
Groovy Waters,
The Fire Engines,
The Grass Roots,
Avey Tare,
Chris & Cosey,
The Stooges,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lungfish,
Livin' Joy,
Q65,
D'Angelo,
The Misunderstood,
Marmalade,
The Sonics,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.