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 Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Columbus.
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 808 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 Unwound to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Television Personalities,
the Germs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Zero Boys,
Joensuu 1685,
Prince Buster,
Ten City,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Laurel Aitken,
Drexciya,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Monolake,
H. Thieme,
Bronski Beat,
Jacob Miller,
Ronnie Foster,
Zapp,
Avey Tare,
Roger Hodgson,
Ponytail,
AZ,
Bobby Sherman,
Arthur Verocai,
World's Most,
Marc Almond,
Brass Construction,
Junior Murvin,
Donny Hathaway,
Alice Coltrane,
Arcadia,
The Raincoats,
Crime,
The Moleskins,
Barrington Levy,
Sonic Youth,
Idris Muhammad,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Mojo Men,
The Star Department,
Vainqueur,
Half Japanese,
Pantaleimon,
Lungfish,
Nas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Velvet Underground,
The Victims,
Intrusion,
D'Angelo,
Ralphi Rosario,
The J.B.'s,
Erykah Badu,
The Dead C,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Faraquet,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fatback Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Isaac Hayes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Matthew Halsall,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.