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 Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 China Crisis to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Electric Prunes,
Scrapy,
The Mojo Men,
Dual Sessions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grauzone,
Arthur Verocai,
Scott Walker,
The Pop Group,
Delta 5,
Hashim,
Eric Copeland,
John Cale,
The Modern Lovers,
Junior Murvin,
JFA,
Model 500,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
This Heat,
Graham Central Station,
The Golliwogs,
Soulsonic Force,
Yellowson,
Audionom,
Franke,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Steve Hackett,
Oblivians,
The Raincoats,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Divine Comedy,
Neil Young,
These Immortal Souls,
The Zeros,
Aloha Tigers,
Gang of Four,
Supertramp,
Grandmaster Flash,
Little Man,
Ronnie Foster,
Bootsy Collins,
The Shadows of Knight,
Duran Duran,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Neon Judgement,
R.M.O.,
John Holt,
Mary Jane Girls,
Skaos,
Cecil Taylor,
Alice Coltrane,
Visage,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Loose Ends,
the Sonics,
48th St. Collective,
Kerri Chandler,
Terry Callier,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.