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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 The Black Dice to the disco 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
These Immortal Souls,
Groovy Waters,
Das Ding,
the Normal,
Neu!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Television,
Kool Moe Dee,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rotary Connection,
Tears for Fears,
Cecil Taylor,
Japan,
Mark Hollis,
The Durutti Column,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lucky Dragons,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Kinks,
Ponytail,
Moss Icon,
Bang On A Can,
Dennis Brown,
Pantytec,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Martian,
The Moleskins,
Theoretical Girls,
Tres Demented,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Masters at Work,
Pet Shop Boys,
Goldenarms,
Nico,
Alphaville,
Pussy Galore,
Joensuu 1685,
Deepchord,
The Shadows of Knight,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eli Mardock,
Electric Light Orchestra,
China Crisis,
Lou Reed,
Slave,
Eric Copeland,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Max Romeo,
Leonard Cohen,
Barrington Levy,
Reagan Youth,
The Angels of Light,
The Detroit Cobras,
Echospace,
The Victims,
Derrick May,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.