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 Mali and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Johnny Clarke,
Fugazi,
The Monks,
The Sonics,
Terry Callier,
Nico,
Isaac Hayes,
Icehouse,
Buzzcocks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Foxx,
Bush Tetras,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Josef K,
the Association,
D'Angelo,
Gichy Dan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Radiohead,
Radiopuhelimet,
Television Personalities,
Pulsallama,
Flipper,
Simply Red,
The Dirtbombs,
Dead Boys,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Selecter,
David Axelrod,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Blake Baxter,
The Count Five,
Aaron Thompson,
The Motions,
Yellowson,
Black Pus,
The Trojans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Hasil Adkins,
Animal Collective,
Maleditus Sound,
Minny Pops,
Fela Kuti,
Sarah Menescal,
JFA,
The Electric Prunes,
Malaria!,
Faraquet,
Zero Boys,
MC5,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Matthew Bourne,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Smiths,
The Searchers,
Mantronix,
Ken Boothe,
Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green.
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.