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 Venezuela and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Grey Daturas to the electroclash 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Sixth Finger,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bad Manners,
Minutemen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Carl Craig,
Idris Muhammad,
Blossom Toes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sun City Girls,
Sugar Minott,
Pantytec,
the Association,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Moody Blues,
Derrick May,
The Cure,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Infiniti,
Robert Görl,
John Cale,
Little Man,
Oblivians,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
This Heat,
Heaven 17,
Basic Channel,
The Golliwogs,
The Leaves,
cv313,
The Buckinghams,
Camouflage,
World's Most,
Man Eating Sloth,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cameo,
the Human League,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Clear Light,
The Sonics,
The Durutti Column,
The Gladiators,
Bronski Beat,
Das Ding,
The Seeds,
Chris Corsano,
Donald Byrd,
Agitation Free,
Juan Atkins,
Big Daddy Kane,
Reagan Youth,
Avey Tare,
The Fire Engines,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Remains,
Yazoo,
Peter and Kerry,
Motorama,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Joyce Sims,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.