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 Gabon and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum 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 Saccharine Trust to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Amazonics,
Wire,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Todd Rundgren,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Max Romeo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
June Days,
Derrick May,
Godley & Creme,
The Young Rascals,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ken Boothe,
Absolute Body Control,
Dennis Brown,
Unrelated Segments,
Visage,
X-101,
The Cure,
Matthew Halsall,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Tim Buckley,
The Fuzztones,
The Fall,
The Walker Brothers,
Khruangbin,
Iggy Pop,
The Buckinghams,
Newcleus,
David McCallum,
The Angels of Light,
Terrestrial Tones,
Chrome,
The Saints,
John Cale,
Danielle Patucci,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scientists,
Warsaw,
Nils Olav,
Suburban Knight,
Radiohead,
Underground Resistance,
Jerry's Kids,
The Fortunes,
Con Funk Shun,
Fear,
The J.B.'s,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lyres,
Intrusion,
Nico,
the Normal,
The Misunderstood,
Blake Baxter,
Joe Finger,
The Evens,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Dead C,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.