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 South Sudan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Accra.
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 clarinet 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 Laurel Aitken to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Sam Rivers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Todd Rundgren,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bauhaus,
Roy Ayers,
Flash Fearless,
Tubeway Army,
Eric Copeland,
Minny Pops,
Scott Walker,
Kurtis Blow,
the Human League,
Bootsy Collins,
Sparks,
The Fuzztones,
Crime,
Kayak,
Iggy Pop,
Flamin' Groovies,
Thompson Twins,
Excepter,
The Mummies,
Duran Duran,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Tremeloes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gong,
Can,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
David Bowie,
Isaac Hayes,
The Fortunes,
Cymande,
Darondo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Freddie Wadling,
The Monochrome Set,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ponytail,
DNA,
EPMD,
In Retrospect,
Judy Mowatt,
The Zeros,
The Sonics,
Theoretical Girls,
Public Enemy,
The Seeds,
Pulsallama,
Negative Approach,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
T.S.O.L.,
The Kinks,
Von Mondo,
The Cure,
Eric Dolphy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.