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 Zambia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Cameo to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Peter & Gordon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marcia Griffiths,
Hardrive,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Loose Ends,
The Monochrome Set,
The Toasters,
Gabor Szabo,
Neil Young,
Crooked Eye,
Eurythmics,
Aloha Tigers,
The Blackbyrds,
Yaz,
Eden Ahbez,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kenny Larkin,
Pharoah Sanders,
Television Personalities,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Magma,
Althea and Donna,
Fluxion,
Cluster,
Circle Jerks,
Accadde A,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
New Age Steppers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mantronix,
D'Angelo,
Procol Harum,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Amon Düül,
The Alarm Clocks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Amon Düül II,
Frankie Knuckles,
CMW,
Ten City,
Icehouse,
Jeru the Damaja,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Clear Light,
Deakin,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lalann,
Shoche,
the Normal,
Marvin Gaye,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.