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 Jordan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a T. Rex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Danielle Patucci,
Dual Sessions,
Zapp,
Harmonia,
Scientists,
Oblivians,
Max Romeo,
Television Personalities,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sly & The Family Stone,
FM Einheit,
ABBA,
Bootsy Collins,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Little Man,
Eric Dolphy,
Sonic Youth,
Joe Smooth,
CMW,
Josef K,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Porter Ricks,
Ronan,
Desert Stars,
Barbara Tucker,
Donny Hathaway,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Talk Talk,
Gang Green,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Lou Reed,
Livin' Joy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Chris & Cosey,
Gerry Rafferty,
Todd Rundgren,
The Seeds,
Brand Nubian,
Boz Scaggs,
Yaz,
Brothers Johnson,
The Slackers,
The Tremeloes,
Moby Grape,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
10cc,
The Skatalites,
the Human League,
Isaac Hayes,
Slick Rick,
B.T. Express,
Jerry's Kids,
Mark Hollis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Flipper,
Rotary Connection,
Zero Boys,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.