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 Belize and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 Jakarta and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Michael McDonald 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eric Copeland,
Kayak,
Supertramp,
The Associates,
Agent Orange,
Warren Ellis,
Sarah Menescal,
Wire,
The Monochrome Set,
Soul II Soul,
New York Dolls,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Mission of Burma,
T.S.O.L.,
Matthew Halsall,
Janne Schatter,
David Axelrod,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
UT,
Anthony Braxton,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Cowsills,
Pet Shop Boys,
Trumans Water,
Skarface,
The Residents,
Severed Heads,
Con Funk Shun,
Prince Buster,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joyce Sims,
Pantaleimon,
In Retrospect,
Todd Terry,
Wings,
The Dirtbombs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Aaron Thompson,
The Gories,
June Days,
The Offenders,
Yellowson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Marmalade,
New Age Steppers,
China Crisis,
Rotary Connection,
Pharoah Sanders,
Organ,
Colin Newman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crooked Eye,
Minny Pops,
Delta 5,
ABC,
Ponytail,
Idris Muhammad,
Vladislav Delay,
John Holt,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.