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 Mauritania and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Liaisons Dangereuses to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Los Fastidios,
The Neon Judgement,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Motions,
Kurtis Blow,
Sandy B,
The Birthday Party,
Parry Music,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Aural Exciters,
Siglo XX,
Maurizio,
Hasil Adkins,
Brick,
The Searchers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Echospace,
Soulsonic Force,
Model 500,
Byron Stingily,
Stetsasonic,
Bill Near,
Soft Cell,
Rotary Connection,
Jimmy McGriff,
Glambeats Corp.,
Panda Bear,
Heaven 17,
Althea and Donna,
Camberwell Now,
The Real Kids,
The Wake,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ten City,
Mr. Review,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New Age Steppers,
Aaron Thompson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Second Layer,
Motorama,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Malaria!,
The Dave Clark Five,
Maleditus Sound,
The Saints,
Morten Harket,
Pantytec,
The Knickerbockers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
CMW,
The Red Krayola,
Shoche,
Eric Copeland,
The Blues Magoos,
Scratch Acid,
The American Breed,
The Velvet Underground,
Nico,
Organ,
In Retrospect,
Minutemen,
X-101,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.