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 South Sudan and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 Jakarta and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Alison Limerick 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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fortunes,
Kaleidoscope,
Kas Product,
Grauzone,
Sex Pistols,
Gastr Del Sol,
MDC,
John Coltrane,
The Angels of Light,
Arthur Verocai,
Dennis Brown,
Jeff Lynne,
Theoretical Girls,
Massinfluence,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Archie Shepp,
Das Ding,
Scrapy,
Maleditus Sound,
Neu!,
Ten City,
Fluxion,
Alice Coltrane,
D'Angelo,
La Düsseldorf,
Loose Ends,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Isaac Hayes,
Eddi Front,
Lakeside,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ronnie Foster,
Bootsy Collins,
ABC,
Camouflage,
John Cale,
PIL,
Scratch Acid,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Second Layer,
Dark Day,
Dual Sessions,
Cameo,
Vainqueur,
Barry Ungar,
Radio Birdman,
Black Pus,
Lou Reed,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Last Poets,
Infiniti,
Sugar Minott,
Harmonia,
Brick,
Intrusion,
Japan,
Barbara Tucker,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
X-101,
K-Klass,
Byron Stingily,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.