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 Uruguay and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb 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 The Skatalites to the crunk 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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
Eric Dolphy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Leonard Cohen,
Dual Sessions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mandrill,
This Heat,
EPMD,
AZ,
Nation of Ulysses,
Chrome,
Peter and Kerry,
DJ Style,
China Crisis,
Mr. Review,
Pole,
Tom Boy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Public Enemy,
Altered Images,
Harpers Bizarre,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Morten Harket,
Procol Harum,
Joe Finger,
Monks,
Spoonie Gee,
The Fuzztones,
Lower 48,
Thee Headcoats,
Wolf Eyes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Electric Prunes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Slits,
Max Romeo,
Barbara Tucker,
Scion,
The Smoke,
Hasil Adkins,
The Index,
Scan 7,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Steve Hackett,
Gichy Dan,
Chris Corsano,
The American Breed,
The Leaves,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kerrie Biddell,
Guru Guru,
Scrapy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Negative Approach,
Eve St. Jones,
Erasure,
Desert Stars,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Terry Callier,
Bobby Byrd,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.