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 Laos and from Mexico City.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the jazz 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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Roger Hodgson,
Underground Resistance,
Monolake,
Gang of Four,
The Vogues,
Mary Jane Girls,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Neu!,
Skaos,
Masters at Work,
Maurizio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Susan Cadogan,
DJ Style,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Easy Going,
EPMD,
Man Parrish,
Inner City,
Kaleidoscope,
Leonard Cohen,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Fall,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Count Five,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Urselle,
Average White Band,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Joey Negro,
Los Fastidios,
The Toasters,
Mantronix,
The Cowsills,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scrapy,
Hardrive,
Arthur Verocai,
Frankie Knuckles,
Thompson Twins,
The Buckinghams,
Buzzcocks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Metal Thangz,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fat Boys,
Saccharine Trust,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Skriet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swans,
The Pretty Things,
Davy DMX,
Duran Duran,
MC5,
Boz Scaggs,
Lou Reed,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.