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 Palau and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Derrick May to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Royal Trux,
Althea and Donna,
Yusef Lateef,
R.M.O.,
Jawbox,
Yellowson,
Shuggie Otis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Walker Brothers,
Connie Case,
Liliput,
Tomorrow,
X-101,
Ultimate Spinach,
Wally Richardson,
Easy Going,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Associates,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cymande,
The Litter,
Schoolly D,
Toni Rubio,
Funky Four + One,
Lakeside,
Swans,
The Sonics,
Hasil Adkins,
Technova,
Robert Hood,
Derrick May,
Deakin,
Monolake,
The Human League,
the Sonics,
Idris Muhammad,
Depeche Mode,
The Gun Club,
The Fortunes,
The Moleskins,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Selecter,
Gang Gang Dance,
Marc Almond,
Bootsy Collins,
Jesper Dahlback,
Robert Wyatt,
Erasure,
kango's stein massive,
Newcleus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Velvet Underground,
L. Decosne,
Lee Hazlewood,
Franke,
cv313,
the Association,
The Red Krayola,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.