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 United Kingdom and from Delhi.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 D'Angelo to the punk 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pop Group,
Godley & Creme,
June Days,
the Normal,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Zapp,
Yaz,
Television,
Lou Reed,
Carl Craig,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lindisfarne,
Slick Rick,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tom Boy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Drexciya,
The Dave Clark Five,
Davy DMX,
Eric Copeland,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sarah Menescal,
Vladislav Delay,
Basic Channel,
The Doors,
Dave Gahan,
Ronan,
Minor Threat,
Outsiders,
Lungfish,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Selecter,
Mark Hollis,
Sun City Girls,
Niagra,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scan 7,
Rapeman,
Average White Band,
The Modern Lovers,
The Wake,
Funky Four + One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Bananas,
Sex Pistols,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fluxion,
Scientists,
Mad Mike,
The Names,
Bluetip,
The Mummies,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eddi Front,
Marcia Griffiths,
Thee Headcoats,
Jandek,
The Offenders,
Zero Boys,
Popol Vuh,
Dual Sessions,
Lebanon Hanover,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.