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 Lebanon and from Portland.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Black Moon to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Donald Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Excepter,
Andrew Hill,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Kinks,
Rotary Connection,
The Skatalites,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Sonics,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Music Machine,
Siglo XX,
Sixth Finger,
Derrick Morgan,
Don Cherry,
Rekid,
Schoolly D,
Donald Byrd,
Piero Umiliani,
Alice Coltrane,
The Mummies,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Wake,
The Cowsills,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Reuben Wilson,
E-Dancer,
Joyce Sims,
Bobby Womack,
Japan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Audionom,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Soft Cell,
Jesper Dahlback,
In Retrospect,
Nils Olav,
Dorothy Ashby,
David McCallum,
Judy Mowatt,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Urselle,
The Raincoats,
the Association,
Pierre Henry,
AZ,
The Martian,
Todd Terry,
Newcleus,
OOIOO,
Roger Hodgson,
MDC,
Swans,
a-ha,
The Knickerbockers,
Ultimate Spinach,
D'Angelo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jacques Brel,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.