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 Turkmenistan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Gladiators to the jazz 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Roger Hodgson,
Kenny Larkin,
Easy Going,
Malaria!,
Matthew Bourne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Flamin' Groovies,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Birthday Party,
Peter and Kerry,
a-ha,
Radiohead,
The Mojo Men,
Technova,
The Evens,
Monolake,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
cv313,
Trumans Water,
Harry Pussy,
The Barracudas,
The Detroit Cobras,
Make Up,
Sparks,
Japan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Shoche,
Skarface,
Ultravox,
F. McDonald,
OOIOO,
The Cramps,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Erykah Badu,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eve St. Jones,
Alice Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Heaven 17,
Icehouse,
Eric Copeland,
Roxette,
Hashim,
Severed Heads,
The Sonics,
Quando Quango,
Television Personalities,
Jeff Mills,
Barrington Levy,
The Skatalites,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rosa Yemen,
Funky Four + One,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Scratch Acid,
Duran Duran,
Junior Murvin,
Silicon Teens,
Essential Logic,
Glenn Branca,
Clear Light,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.