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 Taiwan and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Deepchord to the crunk 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
June Days,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Erasure,
Banda Bassotti,
The Dirtbombs,
Lou Christie,
Jawbox,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Kinks,
L. Decosne,
Heaven 17,
Peter & Gordon,
Joe Smooth,
Fifty Foot Hose,
OOIOO,
Howard Jones,
Alphaville,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
A Certain Ratio,
Rotary Connection,
James White and The Blacks,
Cecil Taylor,
Half Japanese,
U.S. Maple,
Jesper Dahlback,
Patti Smith,
Talk Talk,
The Busters,
Jandek,
Fela Kuti,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Blues Magoos,
Camouflage,
Nick Fraelich,
Slick Rick,
Grauzone,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Laurel Aitken,
Johnny Clarke,
Crispian St. Peters,
Khruangbin,
Michelle Simonal,
The Toasters,
Cybotron,
Eric Copeland,
Dennis Brown,
The Remains,
Echospace,
These Immortal Souls,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Stereo Dub,
The Birthday Party,
The Fall,
The Names,
Tim Buckley,
Little Man,
DJ Style,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sugar Minott,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.