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 Switzerland and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Slick Rick to the techno 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ice-T record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Jeru the Damaja,
Icehouse,
Erasure,
L. Decosne,
Gang of Four,
Sonic Youth,
Pantytec,
Sun Ra,
Peter and Kerry,
The Star Department,
Brick,
The Tremeloes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Reuben Wilson,
Sam Rivers,
Clear Light,
The Walker Brothers,
Subhumans,
X-102,
Basic Channel,
Robert Görl,
Yusef Lateef,
Can,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Hoover,
Public Image Ltd.,
Darondo,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ludus,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Names,
Soul Sonic Force,
Arcadia,
T. Rex,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Aural Exciters,
Skarface,
The Sound,
The Skatalites,
Half Japanese,
Gregory Isaacs,
June Days,
Radiopuhelimet,
Isaac Hayes,
Pussy Galore,
Tom Boy,
In Retrospect,
The Human League,
The Red Krayola,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mandrill,
John Coltrane,
Qualms,
Tears for Fears,
Aswad,
Kerri Chandler,
Matthew Halsall,
New Age Steppers,
DNA,
10cc,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.