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 Guyana and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Public Enemy to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Radiohead,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Black Dice,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Arcadia,
X-102,
Lightning Bolt,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Beau Brummels,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eden Ahbez,
Q and Not U,
Don Cherry,
The Moleskins,
Jawbox,
Au Pairs,
Ornette Coleman,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lou Christie,
Nico,
Terry Callier,
AZ,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gap Band,
Symarip,
Fatback Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Tubeway Army,
The Moody Blues,
Delta 5,
Television Personalities,
Minnie Riperton,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lakeside,
The Searchers,
The Cramps,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cymande,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gabor Szabo,
The Evens,
Depeche Mode,
Ten City,
MC5,
Sixth Finger,
Sun City Girls,
The Misunderstood,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Hoover,
Darondo,
Khruangbin,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse.
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.