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 Malta and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Philadelphia.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 AZ to the rock 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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Beasts of Bourbon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Drexciya,
Newcleus,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
a-ha,
The Toasters,
Joey Negro,
Kevin Saunderson,
Thompson Twins,
Yaz,
Arab on Radar,
Kool Moe Dee,
Popol Vuh,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Motorama,
Ponytail,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Agent Orange,
Angry Samoans,
Eric Dolphy,
Crash Course in Science,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tres Demented,
Basic Channel,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Faraquet,
Los Fastidios,
Isaac Hayes,
The Tremeloes,
Joe Smooth,
Radiohead,
Jacques Brel,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Grass Roots,
The Mojo Men,
Cecil Taylor,
The Durutti Column,
Bootsy Collins,
The Offenders,
Dennis Brown,
Index,
Pantaleimon,
Symarip,
X-Ray Spex,
Eyeless In Gaza,
A Certain Ratio,
The Remains,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Modern Lovers,
Skriet,
Eddi Front,
Kurtis Blow,
The Golliwogs,
Marine Girls,
The New Christs,
Electric Prunes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jandek,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.