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 Saudi Arabia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Tom Verlaine 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 The Star Department to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Outsiders,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Silicon Teens,
Guru Guru,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jacob Miller,
Skarface,
Gang Green,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Subhumans,
cv313,
Mandrill,
Glenn Branca,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
F. McDonald,
Infiniti,
Avey Tare,
Brand Nubian,
Agitation Free,
Jesper Dahlback,
Erasure,
Gang Starr,
Delon & Dalcan,
Swell Maps,
A Certain Ratio,
DJ Style,
Crash Course in Science,
Shoche,
EPMD,
Terrestrial Tones,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kurtis Blow,
Harry Pussy,
Archie Shepp,
D'Angelo,
Clear Light,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Music Machine,
Tommy Roe,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rod Modell,
Mad Mike,
Main Source,
Groovy Waters,
Pole,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Khruangbin,
Brothers Johnson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Durutti Column,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Donny Hathaway,
John Lydon,
Cameo,
Niagra, Niagra, Niagra, Niagra.
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.