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 Tanzania and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Boredoms to the rock 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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Bowie 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
Inner City,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Roxette,
Joy Division,
Patti Smith,
cv313,
Unwound,
The Offenders,
Swans,
Rhythm & Sound,
Cluster,
a-ha,
The Dead C,
The Remains,
The Velvet Underground,
Albert Ayler,
Hoover,
The Music Machine,
Public Enemy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Joyce Sims,
Alison Limerick,
The Raincoats,
Rod Modell,
Lalann,
Lindisfarne,
Massinfluence,
The Move,
The Angels of Light,
Babytalk,
Ituana,
Slave,
The Skatalites,
Lower 48,
The J.B.'s,
The Walker Brothers,
Drexciya,
Porter Ricks,
Janne Schatter,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sister Nancy,
The Cramps,
Bang On A Can,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kerri Chandler,
Nils Olav,
The Neon Judgement,
Radiohead,
Grandmaster Flash,
Maurizio,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Motions,
Jesper Dahlback,
Saccharine Trust,
Urselle,
The Residents,
Blancmange,
OOIOO,
Eli Mardock,
Roxy Music,
Circle Jerks,
Eden Ahbez,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.