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 Luxembourg and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Davy DMX to the funk 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Oneida,
The Mojo Men,
John Lydon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eli Mardock,
Khruangbin,
Michelle Simonal,
Make Up,
The Vogues,
Joensuu 1685,
Eddi Front,
Black Moon,
Mission of Burma,
Mr. Review,
Lalann,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Zeros,
The Trojans,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ken Boothe,
Stiv Bators,
Grey Daturas,
Leonard Cohen,
Zapp,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The J.B.'s,
Amazonics,
Deepchord,
Pantaleimon,
Graham Central Station,
Moebius,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Five Americans,
Interpol,
The Smoke,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ralphi Rosario,
Technova,
David McCallum,
Harry Pussy,
Sound Behaviour,
The Fortunes,
Sister Nancy,
Rekid,
The Standells,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Skarface,
Dark Day,
Babytalk,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bobby Byrd,
Gabor Szabo,
Minor Threat,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ronan,
Todd Terry,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Crooked Eye,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.