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 Angola and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 oboe 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 Maurizio to the disco 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Skaos,
The Selecter,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Minor Threat,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Oneida,
Thompson Twins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Moleskins,
Cal Tjader,
The Golliwogs,
The Toasters,
Ultravox,
FM Einheit,
Massinfluence,
8 Eyed Spy,
Barry Ungar,
Soulsonic Force,
Sun Ra,
The Young Rascals,
The Monks,
The Residents,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sight & Sound,
Crispian St. Peters,
Spandau Ballet,
Alice Coltrane,
The Doobie Brothers,
Throbbing Gristle,
Agitation Free,
Bill Near,
Japan,
the Soft Cell,
Magazine,
Curtis Mayfield,
Arcadia,
Kaleidoscope,
Bush Tetras,
Boogie Down Productions,
Anakelly,
Au Pairs,
Bauhaus,
Anthony Braxton,
John Lydon,
Minny Pops,
Parry Music,
Easy Going,
Charles Mingus,
The Fugs,
Aswad,
New York Dolls,
Mo-Dettes,
The Walker Brothers,
Aural Exciters,
Eden Ahbez,
Patti Smith,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jeru the Damaja,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.