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 Venezuela and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Livin' Joy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
The Doors,
Warren Ellis,
Pulsallama,
Accadde A,
Q65,
Babytalk,
The Seeds,
The Music Machine,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Searchers,
Black Flag,
New Order,
Royal Trux,
Newcleus,
the Association,
U.S. Maple,
Bob Dylan,
The Move,
The Wake,
Minor Threat,
Jesper Dahlback,
Boredoms,
Agitation Free,
OOIOO,
Boz Scaggs,
Nils Olav,
Cheater Slicks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Patti Smith,
DJ Sneak,
Marvin Gaye,
Camberwell Now,
Amon Düül,
Intrusion,
Skarface,
Yaz,
Bobby Byrd,
Audionom,
The Evens,
The Blackbyrds,
The Last Poets,
Electric Prunes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Chris & Cosey,
Bizarre Inc.,
Erasure,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Terry Callier,
Sonny Sharrock,
John Foxx,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Siglo XX,
Joe Finger,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Moleskins,
Echospace,
kango's stein massive,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.