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 Macedonia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Motorama to the crunk 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Moss Icon,
The Slits,
B.T. Express,
Von Mondo,
The Beau Brummels,
Derrick May,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Red Krayola,
CMW,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Remains,
PIL,
The Angels of Light,
The Grass Roots,
Section 25,
Dave Gahan,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Alice Coltrane,
Unrelated Segments,
Lungfish,
The Motions,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gang Starr,
Magma,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Easy Going,
The Mojo Men,
T. Rex,
The Dead C,
Isaac Hayes,
Soft Cell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Aaron Thompson,
Marc Almond,
Agent Orange,
Mary Jane Girls,
Susan Cadogan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Flamin' Groovies,
Toni Rubio,
Parry Music,
Rapeman,
Bill Near,
Lindisfarne,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bad Manners,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Misunderstood,
Robert Wyatt,
The Move,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Pus,
Sound Behaviour,
Kerrie Biddell,
Clear Light,
Alison Limerick,
Lou Christie,
Arcadia,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.