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 States and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Joensuu 1685 to the dance 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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every U.S. Maple 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 marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
The Modern Lovers,
Jawbox,
Todd Rundgren,
Pere Ubu,
Eli Mardock,
Livin' Joy,
Lalann,
Massinfluence,
Metal Thangz,
Das Ding,
Kas Product,
Neil Young,
Dave Gahan,
Eric Copeland,
Lindisfarne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fall,
Brass Construction,
Barclay James Harvest,
Agent Orange,
Minor Threat,
Joyce Sims,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Toni Rubio,
Scratch Acid,
Television,
Altered Images,
Newcleus,
T. Rex,
Jacob Miller,
Bobby Womack,
Country Teasers,
Drexciya,
Agitation Free,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kurtis Blow,
Glambeats Corp.,
Hot Snakes,
Vainqueur,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
E-Dancer,
KRS-One,
Nils Olav,
Theoretical Girls,
Nik Kershaw,
Chrome,
Jesper Dahlback,
a-ha,
Wire,
Anakelly,
Can,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Golliwogs,
Ludus,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.