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 United States and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Lou Reed 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 Flash Fearless to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T.S.O.L.,
Jesper Dahlback,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Tremeloes,
The American Breed,
The Electric Prunes,
The Residents,
Idris Muhammad,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Young Marble Giants,
Delta 5,
The United States of America,
Quando Quango,
The Angels of Light,
Dennis Brown,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Smoke,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lou Reed,
Swans,
ABC,
The Birthday Party,
Iggy Pop,
Camberwell Now,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Zero Boys,
World's Most,
Soul II Soul,
Joyce Sims,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pere Ubu,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gap Band,
The Evens,
Minutemen,
The Slits,
Erykah Badu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tom Boy,
The Seeds,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barbara Tucker,
Bang On A Can,
Ituana,
Alison Limerick,
Mars,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Fugs,
Eli Mardock,
Tommy Roe,
Procol Harum,
KRS-One,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Outsiders,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Misunderstood,
Erasure,
Piero Umiliani,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.