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 Palau and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Paris.
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 harpsichord 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 David Bowie to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fat Boys 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Arthur Verocai,
Lightning Bolt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Matthew Halsall,
Reagan Youth,
the Sonics,
Delon & Dalcan,
Barrington Levy,
Soft Cell,
Dawn Penn,
Echospace,
D'Angelo,
Symarip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Darondo,
T.S.O.L.,
Interpol,
Pet Shop Boys,
Amon Düül,
Nik Kershaw,
Scrapy,
The Pretty Things,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Circle Jerks,
Glenn Branca,
The Durutti Column,
The J.B.'s,
Agitation Free,
Quando Quango,
Eric B and Rakim,
Chris & Cosey,
The Knickerbockers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Q and Not U,
Massinfluence,
The Grass Roots,
EPMD,
Eric Dolphy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Index,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Yaz,
Robert Hood,
Rekid,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dead Boys,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bronski Beat,
Fear,
The Black Dice,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nirvana,
Joe Smooth,
Zapp,
Harmonia,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.