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 Tanzania and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 10cc to the punk 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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Beasts of Bourbon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-Ray Spex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ronnie Foster,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
New Age Steppers,
Wire,
Royal Trux,
Mission of Burma,
Amon Düül II,
Eddi Front,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Vogues,
Peter and Kerry,
Grauzone,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
Faust,
Bush Tetras,
Vainqueur,
The United States of America,
Camouflage,
Skriet,
Sonny Sharrock,
Oneida,
Jerry's Kids,
Livin' Joy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Barracudas,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Boz Scaggs,
Swans,
Isaac Hayes,
David Bowie,
Hashim,
The Pop Group,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scan 7,
The Walker Brothers,
Silicon Teens,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Zapp,
Robert Wyatt,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Buckinghams,
Suburban Knight,
Parry Music,
Gang Green,
Dark Day,
Eric Dolphy,
L. Decosne,
This Heat,
The Smoke,
The Smiths,
Wings,
Wally Richardson,
Sixth Finger,
Dennis Brown,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.