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 China and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Lakeside to the crunk 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Rosa Yemen,
The Dave Clark Five,
New Age Steppers,
D'Angelo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Letta Mbulu,
China Crisis,
Fluxion,
Joyce Sims,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Man Parrish,
Lalann,
Oneida,
Thompson Twins,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pagans,
Marvin Gaye,
Roger Hodgson,
Tropical Tobacco,
Essential Logic,
Flamin' Groovies,
Arthur Verocai,
OOIOO,
Black Sheep,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Television,
Bronski Beat,
Tubeway Army,
The Sound,
The Five Americans,
Quantec,
DJ Sneak,
Amon Düül II,
Q65,
Bluetip,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Shadows of Knight,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
A Certain Ratio,
The Standells,
Patti Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
Radiopuhelimet,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Residents,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hasil Adkins,
The Doors,
Rakim,
Eddi Front,
Buzzcocks,
Eve St. Jones,
Cluster,
Marmalade,
Eric Copeland,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Soul II Soul,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.