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 Iran and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 linndrum 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the dance 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 The Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sound Behaviour,
Aaron Thompson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Monolake,
Lou Christie,
The Searchers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Big Daddy Kane,
David McCallum,
The Human League,
Jacques Brel,
Iggy Pop,
Von Mondo,
The Cowsills,
Das Ding,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Brass Construction,
Bluetip,
The Count Five,
Patti Smith,
Pierre Henry,
Cluster,
10cc,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lindisfarne,
Sex Pistols,
Eric Copeland,
James White and The Blacks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Wings,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bauhaus,
Agitation Free,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eli Mardock,
Moss Icon,
Hasil Adkins,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Alton Ellis,
John Foxx,
Pharoah Sanders,
Stereo Dub,
Dead Boys,
The Names,
The Remains,
Interpol,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Jacob Miller,
Letta Mbulu,
H. Thieme,
Massinfluence,
Gang of Four,
Rekid,
The Doors,
Sparks,
The Victims,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Evens,
Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy.
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.