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 France and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Aural Exciters to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Vainqueur,
Funky Four + One,
Blossom Toes,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Fuzztones,
Siglo XX,
The Associates,
China Crisis,
Gang Green,
the Swans,
Graham Central Station,
The Mummies,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Depeche Mode,
Eden Ahbez,
Peter and Kerry,
Aaron Thompson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kevin Saunderson,
Todd Rundgren,
The Count Five,
Altered Images,
The J.B.'s,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dorothy Ashby,
Drexciya,
Unwound,
U.S. Maple,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Thompson Twins,
Warren Ellis,
Audionom,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Fire Engines,
The Move,
The United States of America,
Shuggie Otis,
Marmalade,
Dual Sessions,
Von Mondo,
Tropical Tobacco,
Young Marble Giants,
Buzzcocks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tom Boy,
Lalann,
Black Moon,
Mantronix,
Dave Gahan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Mojo Men,
Rufus Thomas,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dead Boys,
The Cure,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Unrelated Segments,
Cameo,
Infiniti,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.