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 Taiwan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Colin Newman to the rock 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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Searchers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Johnny Osbourne,
China Crisis,
The Saints,
Quantec,
Quadrant,
The Angels of Light,
Slave,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marmalade,
Danielle Patucci,
Alton Ellis,
Soft Machine,
Circle Jerks,
Barbara Tucker,
Marine Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dave Gahan,
Heaven 17,
Rites of Spring,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Prince Buster,
Camberwell Now,
The Blues Magoos,
Chris Corsano,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Crime,
Bootsy Collins,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cure,
Scientists,
Toni Rubio,
Nik Kershaw,
Suicide,
Second Layer,
Harry Pussy,
Lower 48,
Chris & Cosey,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
CMW,
Man Eating Sloth,
Technova,
Loose Ends,
Eden Ahbez,
The Durutti Column,
The Shadows of Knight,
John Coltrane,
The Mummies,
Average White Band,
Talk Talk,
La Düsseldorf,
New Order,
Howard Jones,
Minny Pops,
Arab on Radar,
Roxette,
David Bowie,
New York Dolls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.