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 Mauritania and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Patti Smith to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Can,
Adolescents,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Count Five,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Yellowson,
Motorama,
John Foxx,
Gregory Isaacs,
Patti Smith,
Bronski Beat,
Skarface,
Theoretical Girls,
The Fortunes,
Brass Construction,
T.S.O.L.,
Grauzone,
Stockholm Monsters,
Camberwell Now,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Q and Not U,
Hasil Adkins,
Boz Scaggs,
The Happenings,
Pagans,
Spoonie Gee,
Rotary Connection,
Neil Young,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gichy Dan,
UT,
Black Pus,
Jawbox,
Y Pants,
The Real Kids,
kango's stein massive,
Moby Grape,
Icehouse,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Organ,
The Fugs,
Pierre Henry,
Bauhaus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jeff Lynne,
Interpol,
Eden Ahbez,
Gerry Rafferty,
Trumans Water,
Terry Callier,
Arthur Verocai,
Fear,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Simply Red,
Alphaville,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fad Gadget,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.