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 Kosovo and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Tom Boy to the disco 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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Neon Judgement,
Stetsasonic,
Suburban Knight,
Reagan Youth,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Technova,
These Immortal Souls,
The Gap Band,
Animal Collective,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bill Near,
Matthew Bourne,
Mo-Dettes,
The Leaves,
JFA,
Kenny Larkin,
Moebius,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Black Flag,
Brick,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
the Fania All-Stars,
Amon Düül II,
Darondo,
Metal Thangz,
Lebanon Hanover,
Wire,
The Cure,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Susan Cadogan,
The Sonics,
Crispian St. Peters,
Byron Stingily,
Ronnie Foster,
Sandy B,
Magma,
Scott Walker,
X-102,
John Holt,
Public Enemy,
The Mojo Men,
Marine Girls,
Arcadia,
Lou Reed,
The Five Americans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Slits,
Cybotron,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Barrington Levy,
Quantec,
Ken Boothe,
Dave Gahan,
Gabor Szabo,
The Index,
Sun Ra,
KRS-One,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.