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 Pakistan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Crooked Eye to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eli Mardock,
E-Dancer,
Hardrive,
Television Personalities,
AZ,
Boz Scaggs,
Tropical Tobacco,
Yaz,
Fad Gadget,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ornette Coleman,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rufus Thomas,
Jawbox,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Howard Jones,
Simply Red,
Outsiders,
Tears for Fears,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Birthday Party,
Tim Buckley,
The Blackbyrds,
Ken Boothe,
Colin Newman,
Warren Ellis,
Shuggie Otis,
The Victims,
The Pop Group,
Faraquet,
A Certain Ratio,
Nico,
Hashim,
Bill Near,
Clear Light,
The Gladiators,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Cowsills,
Cecil Taylor,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Human League,
Wasted Youth,
Connie Case,
Easy Going,
Max Romeo,
The Mojo Men,
Adolescents,
Godley & Creme,
Television,
Deepchord,
Sonny Sharrock,
Goldenarms,
Minutemen,
Laurel Aitken,
The Fall,
Peter & Gordon,
Jerry's Kids,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.