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 Congo and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Lou Reed 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 Supertramp to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sex Pistols record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Susan Cadogan,
Soulsonic Force,
Alton Ellis,
CMW,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Halsall,
Rufus Thomas,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fall,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Fuzztones,
Albert Ayler,
Dave Gahan,
Marmalade,
Reagan Youth,
Rod Modell,
Judy Mowatt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cal Tjader,
Reuben Wilson,
Janne Schatter,
The Star Department,
Alice Coltrane,
Jacques Brel,
Avey Tare,
Maurizio,
Ronnie Foster,
June Days,
AZ,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Outsiders,
This Heat,
Kurtis Blow,
Scott Walker,
Dawn Penn,
Kenny Larkin,
Juan Atkins,
The Cure,
The Knickerbockers,
Duran Duran,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Hoover,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Icehouse,
Country Teasers,
Delta 5,
Byron Stingily,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mo-Dettes,
Gichy Dan,
Pantaleimon,
The Birthday Party,
The United States of America,
Newcleus,
Todd Rundgren,
Scan 7,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.