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 Korea North and from Seoul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Cairo.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Terry Callier 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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mandrill,
Jacob Miller,
The Remains,
Sun Ra,
The Raincoats,
Guru Guru,
Suburban Knight,
Magma,
Dennis Brown,
Massinfluence,
Gong,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Adolescents,
The Techniques,
Gang of Four,
Black Sheep,
Lalo Schifrin,
Barbara Tucker,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jawbox,
DNA,
Lucky Dragons,
The Saints,
EPMD,
Lalann,
Das Ding,
Joe Smooth,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eve St. Jones,
The Leaves,
ABBA,
Livin' Joy,
Aaron Thompson,
Duran Duran,
Bob Dylan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Golliwogs,
cv313,
Lungfish,
Animal Collective,
Pylon,
Ponytail,
Symarip,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cheater Slicks,
Man Parrish,
Amon Düül II,
Derrick Morgan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Moss Icon,
Bobby Womack,
Average White Band,
Nils Olav,
The Real Kids,
Shuggie Otis,
Parry Music,
Con Funk Shun,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sun City Girls,
Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop.
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.