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 Solomon Islands and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Bronski Beat,
Fatback Band,
The Angels of Light,
Infiniti,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Parry Music,
Metal Thangz,
Dual Sessions,
Nik Kershaw,
Lalo Schifrin,
Minnie Riperton,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lee Hazlewood,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fugazi,
Negative Approach,
Skriet,
Albert Ayler,
Eric Copeland,
a-ha,
Accadde A,
Peter & Gordon,
Marc Almond,
Archie Shepp,
Cheater Slicks,
The Velvet Underground,
Donald Byrd,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Echospace,
Dead Boys,
L. Decosne,
Saccharine Trust,
Lou Christie,
Japan,
Fat Boys,
The Detroit Cobras,
Marmalade,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dennis Brown,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Zero Boys,
Pussy Galore,
Deakin,
Spandau Ballet,
Eve St. Jones,
Matthew Bourne,
Pylon,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Excepter,
The Blues Magoos,
Isaac Hayes,
Derrick Morgan,
Outsiders,
The J.B.'s,
The Count Five,
The Young Rascals,
10cc,
Dorothy Ashby,
Alice Coltrane,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.