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 Guinea and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Lou Reed 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the grunge 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
The Stooges,
Zapp,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Dave Clark Five,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Country Teasers,
The Evens,
Sun Ra,
U.S. Maple,
Porter Ricks,
The Electric Prunes,
Connie Case,
The Music Machine,
Soft Cell,
Crash Course in Science,
Roxy Music,
The Shadows of Knight,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
DJ Sneak,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Duran Duran,
Section 25,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fugs,
Bang On A Can,
Loose Ends,
Skarface,
the Normal,
Juan Atkins,
FM Einheit,
Dead Boys,
The American Breed,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gastr Del Sol,
Warren Ellis,
Television,
Delon & Dalcan,
Wally Richardson,
Alton Ellis,
Nils Olav,
John Lydon,
Blossom Toes,
Icehouse,
The Leaves,
X-Ray Spex,
Outsiders,
Marmalade,
The Selecter,
Yellowson,
Gabor Szabo,
Deadbeat,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pet Shop Boys,
Audionom,
Thompson Twins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.