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 Rwanda and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Gong to the punk 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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Eddi Front,
Blancmange,
Jacques Brel,
The Cowsills,
Scott Walker,
These Immortal Souls,
Fugazi,
Loose Ends,
Panda Bear,
Chrome,
Morten Harket,
This Heat,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Yazoo,
Masters at Work,
Sound Behaviour,
Marmalade,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Cure,
Popol Vuh,
Scientists,
EPMD,
Mo-Dettes,
Zapp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joensuu 1685,
Reagan Youth,
the Germs,
Mantronix,
The Skatalites,
Lee Hazlewood,
Joyce Sims,
Nik Kershaw,
The Blues Magoos,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Laurel Aitken,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eden Ahbez,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kas Product,
Ronan,
The Young Rascals,
The Cramps,
The Neon Judgement,
Animal Collective,
Blossom Toes,
Amon Düül II,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grey Daturas,
Soft Machine,
Mary Jane Girls,
Suburban Knight,
Rotary Connection,
Japan,
Jimmy McGriff,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.