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 Suriname and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Robert Palmer 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 Jimmy McGriff to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All The Victims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Blossom Toes,
MDC,
Mantronix,
Dennis Brown,
OOIOO,
The Birthday Party,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crispy Ambulance,
L. Decosne,
The Skatalites,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sound Behaviour,
Tomorrow,
Magma,
Accadde A,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Index,
The Victims,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Steve Hackett,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cymande,
UT,
Zero Boys,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Sound,
Boz Scaggs,
The Standells,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lower 48,
the Germs,
the Soft Cell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Alice Coltrane,
Alton Ellis,
The Fall,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Knickerbockers,
Lalann,
Desert Stars,
Gastr Del Sol,
Godley & Creme,
Infiniti,
Scott Walker,
Fela Kuti,
The Durutti Column,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nik Kershaw,
Joe Smooth,
Aswad,
Ten City,
The Moleskins,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.