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 Samoa and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Duran Duran to the rock 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance 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 rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Camouflage,
The Birthday Party,
Pet Shop Boys,
Michelle Simonal,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fugs,
Funkadelic,
Electric Prunes,
Nas,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Dead C,
Grandmaster Flash,
Blake Baxter,
Hoover,
The Smoke,
Rod Modell,
Parry Music,
Gang Gang Dance,
Zero Boys,
The Divine Comedy,
John Foxx,
Ossler,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Amazonics,
Nick Fraelich,
David Bowie,
Sonic Youth,
John Holt,
Masters at Work,
The Red Krayola,
Y Pants,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Joensuu 1685,
The Velvet Underground,
Sun Ra,
Fat Boys,
DJ Style,
Heaven 17,
Fugazi,
Audionom,
The Saints,
Shoche,
Ituana,
Neil Young,
Bobby Byrd,
The Modern Lovers,
Jeff Mills,
Harry Pussy,
Tears for Fears,
Inner City,
Moebius,
Nils Olav,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Barracudas,
Saccharine Trust,
MDC,
DJ Sneak,
Sister Nancy,
Alton Ellis,
X-Ray Spex,
Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier.
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.