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 Kuwait and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Portland and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Associates to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
Youth Brigade,
Cybotron,
The Seeds,
Anakelly,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tubeway Army,
Los Fastidios,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Divine Comedy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Five Americans,
Thompson Twins,
Camouflage,
The Techniques,
The Gap Band,
Main Source,
L. Decosne,
Ituana,
The Move,
Symarip,
Unwound,
Byron Stingily,
KRS-One,
Roxy Music,
Eddi Front,
Delon & Dalcan,
Freddie Wadling,
Colin Newman,
Suicide,
Audionom,
DNA,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Sound,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Count Five,
Alison Limerick,
Altered Images,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jacob Miller,
Roger Hodgson,
Whodini,
John Foxx,
Skaos,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Doors,
Rotary Connection,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pagans,
Roxette,
Masters at Work,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pulsallama,
The J.B.'s,
Skriet,
Cluster,
The Detroit Cobras,
Black Sheep,
Angry Samoans,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.