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 Argentina and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Oblivians to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Flock of Seagulls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rod Modell,
Absolute Body Control,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Chris Corsano,
Albert Ayler,
Echospace,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Monolake,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sight & Sound,
Tom Boy,
Bobby Womack,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Main Source,
Ituana,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Alice Coltrane,
Slave,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lower 48,
Metal Thangz,
This Heat,
The Cramps,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sonic Youth,
The Five Americans,
Bobby Byrd,
Jawbox,
Piero Umiliani,
Guru Guru,
Saccharine Trust,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Johnny Clarke,
Al Stewart,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lindisfarne,
The Dirtbombs,
Fatback Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Niagra,
Jeff Lynne,
The Count Five,
DNA,
Lightning Bolt,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
New York Dolls,
Sister Nancy,
Rufus Thomas,
The Gladiators,
B.T. Express,
Scion,
Amazonics,
Sound Behaviour,
Hasil Adkins,
Gil Scott Heron,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.