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 Saudi Arabia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 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 Television Personalities to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Eating Sloth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
Kayak,
Junior Murvin,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Todd Terry,
Freddie Wadling,
The Busters,
The Human League,
Tubeway Army,
The Cramps,
Crash Course in Science,
The Music Machine,
Ohio Players,
Mantronix,
Panda Bear,
The Cure,
Lalann,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Marc Almond,
Rod Modell,
Make Up,
Ludus,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Evens,
Yellowson,
Groovy Waters,
Ronan,
Barrington Levy,
Silicon Teens,
Roger Hodgson,
Royal Trux,
The Litter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Popol Vuh,
Fifty Foot Hose,
John Cale,
The Gladiators,
Minnie Riperton,
Sun Ra,
Jeff Mills,
Spoonie Gee,
Marine Girls,
MDC,
Scott Walker,
Thompson Twins,
Roxy Music,
Delta 5,
Gichy Dan,
Harry Pussy,
The Knickerbockers,
Amon Düül,
Black Flag,
Max Romeo,
Rites of Spring,
The Martian,
Aaron Thompson,
Basic Channel,
Morten Harket,
Au Pairs,
Swans,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.