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 Ecuador and from London.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Slick Rick to the crunk 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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Mantronix,
Carl Craig,
Goldenarms,
Model 500,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marmalade,
The New Christs,
Isaac Hayes,
the Human League,
Wings,
The Cure,
Roger Hodgson,
The Blues Magoos,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Tubeway Army,
The Buckinghams,
Drexciya,
Funkadelic,
The Count Five,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mr. Review,
Organ,
DNA,
Zapp,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ossler,
Popol Vuh,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Massinfluence,
Flipper,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
a-ha,
Audionom,
KRS-One,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sound Behaviour,
Negative Approach,
Loose Ends,
Average White Band,
R.M.O.,
David Bowie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Parry Music,
The Leaves,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arab on Radar,
Pulsallama,
Graham Central Station,
Sister Nancy,
The Grass Roots,
Robert Hood,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Smiths,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Christie,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.