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 Togo and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 Lille and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Silicon Teens to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Moon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Sheep,
Visage,
Bronski Beat,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Aswad,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crispian St. Peters,
June Days,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Golliwogs,
Aaron Thompson,
Pylon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Half Japanese,
Ponytail,
The Velvet Underground,
Mantronix,
Grey Daturas,
The Gun Club,
Neu!,
Black Flag,
Gang of Four,
Rod Modell,
Fugazi,
The Moody Blues,
Pierre Henry,
Cal Tjader,
Excepter,
Main Source,
Donald Byrd,
New Age Steppers,
Avey Tare,
Underground Resistance,
Scott Walker,
The Birthday Party,
Circle Jerks,
JFA,
Tommy Roe,
Swans,
Liliput,
Nick Fraelich,
Electric Prunes,
Iggy Pop,
Todd Terry,
Rhythm & Sound,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pantytec,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Duran Duran,
Blancmange,
Ohio Players,
Aural Exciters,
Kas Product,
Make Up,
Essential Logic,
Max Romeo,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.