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 Toronto.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bush Tetras. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near 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 a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sam Rivers,
The Walker Brothers,
Idris Muhammad,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Peter & Gordon,
The Motions,
Rod Modell,
Moss Icon,
Fad Gadget,
Public Enemy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Chrome,
Lebanon Hanover,
Monks,
Das Ding,
Magma,
New Order,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Howard Jones,
Little Man,
Main Source,
Jerry's Kids,
Erasure,
Trumans Water,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bill Wells,
Johnny Osbourne,
Television Personalities,
The Move,
The Mojo Men,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Neu!,
Unrelated Segments,
The Count Five,
Severed Heads,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Tremeloes,
Lucky Dragons,
Harry Pussy,
Marine Girls,
the Association,
Pantytec,
Letta Mbulu,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lungfish,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Monochrome Set,
ABC,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Echospace,
F. McDonald,
Deadbeat,
Swell Maps,
Warren Ellis,
Loose Ends,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.