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 Moldova and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 La Düsseldorf to the crunk 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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Public Enemy,
Bobby Womack,
The Zeros,
Ralphi Rosario,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lebanon Hanover,
Toni Rubio,
Prince Buster,
Duran Duran,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
KRS-One,
Delta 5,
Lower 48,
Mary Jane Girls,
Laurel Aitken,
Wolf Eyes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Yazoo,
Connie Case,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Seeds,
Donny Hathaway,
Sex Pistols,
The Young Rascals,
Maleditus Sound,
Joe Finger,
LL Cool J,
The Moleskins,
Roxette,
Severed Heads,
John Coltrane,
Slick Rick,
The Leaves,
Zero Boys,
Robert Hood,
Harry Pussy,
Panda Bear,
Glenn Branca,
Schoolly D,
Unwound,
Soft Cell,
Jandek,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fire Engines,
Malaria!,
Freddie Wadling,
Moss Icon,
New Order,
Gang Gang Dance,
Popol Vuh,
Guru Guru,
Sam Rivers,
Deakin,
Joey Negro,
Section 25,
The Gories,
Gang Starr,
The Modern Lovers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.