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 Sweden and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Goldenarms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Alphaville,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Suburban Knight,
Thompson Twins,
Echospace,
Wasted Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
Rod Modell,
Rosa Yemen,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Moss Icon,
Metal Thangz,
The Last Poets,
Ronnie Foster,
Bootsy Collins,
Eurythmics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Invisible,
Henry Cow,
Panda Bear,
China Crisis,
Black Moon,
The Monks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hot Snakes,
Man Parrish,
Thee Headcoats,
Guru Guru,
Boredoms,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Dead C,
Unrelated Segments,
Main Source,
David Axelrod,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
James White and The Blacks,
Zero Boys,
The Busters,
Colin Newman,
Pierre Henry,
Parry Music,
Dawn Penn,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Absolute Body Control,
Todd Rundgren,
Soul II Soul,
Barry Ungar,
The Music Machine,
Avey Tare,
Dual Sessions,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.