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 Seychelles and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Nik Kershaw to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Gang Gang Dance,
L. Decosne,
The Star Department,
Alice Coltrane,
D'Angelo,
Lakeside,
Faust,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
In Retrospect,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Stereo Dub,
The Fugs,
Unwound,
Kenny Larkin,
Tropical Tobacco,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nas,
Reuben Wilson,
Jeff Mills,
Laurel Aitken,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Standells,
Eyeless In Gaza,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Loose Ends,
Danielle Patucci,
John Holt,
Black Sheep,
Nils Olav,
the Germs,
June of 44,
Funky Four + One,
Don Cherry,
The Smiths,
The Associates,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Slick Rick,
Fear,
Arcadia,
The Human League,
The Velvet Underground,
Soul II Soul,
Archie Shepp,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Parry Music,
Bad Manners,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Eric Copeland,
Maleditus Sound,
New Age Steppers,
Marmalade,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Franke,
Ken Boothe,
the Slits,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.