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 Taiwan and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer 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 DJ Sneak to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Reuben Wilson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mary Jane Girls,
Thompson Twins,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ornette Coleman,
Tomorrow,
David Axelrod,
Junior Murvin,
Duran Duran,
kango's stein massive,
The Five Americans,
Pulsallama,
Todd Rundgren,
Grey Daturas,
Public Enemy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eve St. Jones,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Saccharine Trust,
Dawn Penn,
Pere Ubu,
The Star Department,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Happenings,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Joyce Sims,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kayak,
Curtis Mayfield,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pylon,
the Human League,
Bush Tetras,
Country Teasers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Josef K,
Index,
Zero Boys,
LL Cool J,
Camberwell Now,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Slick Rick,
Soulsonic Force,
Bobby Byrd,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Wasted Youth,
Swans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kerrie Biddell,
Piero Umiliani,
Steve Hackett,
Tres Demented,
Quantec,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lower 48,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.