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 Argentina and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 sitar 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 Fear to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
the Association,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Parrish,
Rosa Yemen,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Durutti Column,
Bootsy Collins,
The Kinks,
Sound Behaviour,
Alison Limerick,
Cybotron,
Byron Stingily,
Eric Dolphy,
Easy Going,
Bauhaus,
Stereo Dub,
X-101,
Ossler,
Aaron Thompson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yusef Lateef,
Massinfluence,
Yellowson,
Rod Modell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Alice Coltrane,
Donny Hathaway,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Susan Cadogan,
Albert Ayler,
Cal Tjader,
The Angels of Light,
Bobby Sherman,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Crispian St. Peters,
Panda Bear,
Gang of Four,
KRS-One,
Radiohead,
Tears for Fears,
Scott Walker,
Monolake,
R.M.O.,
Kerri Chandler,
Gong,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Audionom,
Jawbox,
the Human League,
Groovy Waters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Hasil Adkins,
Black Bananas,
Black Pus,
The United States of America,
Crooked Eye,
Model 500,
Vladislav Delay,
Mars,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.