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 Ukraine and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
Janne Schatter,
E-Dancer,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Coltrane,
Fugazi,
Laurel Aitken,
K-Klass,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
T. Rex,
Massinfluence,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Todd Rundgren,
Idris Muhammad,
Section 25,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
La Düsseldorf,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pylon,
Silicon Teens,
Scientists,
Radiohead,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Max Romeo,
Guru Guru,
Circle Jerks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Organ,
Alphaville,
Crooked Eye,
Isaac Hayes,
Soulsonic Force,
Interpol,
Can,
H. Thieme,
Radio Birdman,
Bill Near,
Boz Scaggs,
Talk Talk,
The Grass Roots,
8 Eyed Spy,
Chris & Cosey,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Yaz,
PIL,
Ossler,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Model 500,
Nik Kershaw,
Soft Machine,
Smog,
Eddi Front,
Deadbeat,
Los Fastidios,
Josef K,
The Fall,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobbi Humphrey.
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.