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 Taiwan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
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 Ultravox to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Blancmange,
Anakelly,
Jacob Miller,
Country Teasers,
The Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare,
Stiv Bators,
Derrick Morgan,
The Moody Blues,
Scott Walker,
The Cramps,
Slick Rick,
UT,
Magma,
Young Marble Giants,
Freddie Wadling,
Blake Baxter,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Minnie Riperton,
Spoonie Gee,
Marmalade,
Depeche Mode,
Harmonia,
Magazine,
Grey Daturas,
MC5,
Tropical Tobacco,
LL Cool J,
Half Japanese,
X-102,
Hardrive,
Barrington Levy,
Peter & Gordon,
Audionom,
The Angels of Light,
Fat Boys,
a-ha,
Television Personalities,
The Fugs,
Moebius,
Delta 5,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Music Machine,
Grauzone,
Yaz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Moby Grape,
John Cale,
The Skatalites,
Robert Hood,
L. Decosne,
The Slackers,
Juan Atkins,
Kas Product,
Boogie Down Productions,
Deadbeat,
Ronnie Foster,
Yellowson,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.