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 Dominican Republic and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Crash Course in Science to the electroclash 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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann 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?
Outsiders,
Lungfish,
The Associates,
The Move,
Stiv Bators,
Deakin,
The Kinks,
Supertramp,
Maleditus Sound,
The Barracudas,
The Black Dice,
Fad Gadget,
The Slackers,
Cameo,
Glenn Branca,
Harpers Bizarre,
Roxy Music,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Model 500,
Index,
The Standells,
Flamin' Groovies,
Circle Jerks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Human League,
Lakeside,
Duran Duran,
Y Pants,
Scratch Acid,
Excepter,
Public Image Ltd.,
Magazine,
Tears for Fears,
Black Bananas,
Joe Smooth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bush Tetras,
The Dead C,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pere Ubu,
Cybotron,
Slick Rick,
Mo-Dettes,
Reuben Wilson,
Hashim,
Leonard Cohen,
Country Teasers,
The Remains,
Scrapy,
The Angels of Light,
Ultravox,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Niagra,
Donny Hathaway,
Soulsonic Force,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Crooked Eye,
The Neon Judgement,
Cymande,
Jeff Lynne,
The American Breed,
Kurtis Blow,
Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep.
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.