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 El Salvador and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Desert Stars to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Certain Ratio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T.S.O.L.,
Mars,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gong,
Warsaw,
The Fuzztones,
Leonard Cohen,
Motorama,
Anthony Braxton,
Robert Wyatt,
Aaron Thompson,
H. Thieme,
Lungfish,
Niagra,
New York Dolls,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
LL Cool J,
Marine Girls,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Electric Prunes,
48th St. Collective,
Roxy Music,
The Knickerbockers,
Pierre Henry,
Joey Negro,
Alton Ellis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Flipper,
Soft Cell,
The Remains,
Main Source,
Animal Collective,
Das Ding,
Crispy Ambulance,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sound Behaviour,
Dual Sessions,
Deepchord,
Dennis Brown,
Nick Fraelich,
Interpol,
cv313,
The Barracudas,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Underground Resistance,
Little Man,
Ponytail,
The Angels of Light,
Trumans Water,
Chris & Cosey,
Public Enemy,
The Fire Engines,
World's Most,
Technova,
Soulsonic Force,
Graham Central Station,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.