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 Israel and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 David Bowie 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 Bob Dylan 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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Audionom,
Aural Exciters,
Electric Light Orchestra,
These Immortal Souls,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Electric Prunes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Chris & Cosey,
Graham Central Station,
Khruangbin,
Kas Product,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Trumans Water,
Adolescents,
Bad Manners,
Zero Boys,
Tubeway Army,
Skarface,
Alice Coltrane,
AZ,
The Doobie Brothers,
Leonard Cohen,
The Invisible,
Derrick Morgan,
Flipper,
The Monochrome Set,
Barbara Tucker,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Yellowson,
Slave,
Circle Jerks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Wire,
Ultimate Spinach,
Yusef Lateef,
The Techniques,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bob Dylan,
The Alarm Clocks,
D'Angelo,
EPMD,
Fad Gadget,
Ronan,
Half Japanese,
Pierre Henry,
Jimmy McGriff,
Groovy Waters,
John Holt,
Carl Craig,
David McCallum,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Infiniti,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Music Machine,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Average White Band,
The Evens,
Funkadelic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wolf Eyes,
Hoover,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.