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 Kazakhstan and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the rock 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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
One Last Wish,
Dawn Penn,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobby Womack,
Sonic Youth,
The Associates,
The Smiths,
Nas,
Sällskapet,
Yazoo,
Aural Exciters,
Charles Mingus,
kango's stein massive,
Heaven 17,
Negative Approach,
The American Breed,
The Names,
Moby Grape,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tommy Roe,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mark Hollis,
Popol Vuh,
H. Thieme,
The Stooges,
Scott Walker,
John Foxx,
Second Layer,
Brick,
Mad Mike,
Ralphi Rosario,
John Cale,
Qualms,
Bad Manners,
Duran Duran,
Toni Rubio,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Warren Ellis,
EPMD,
R.M.O.,
Hardrive,
The Misunderstood,
The Black Dice,
Organ,
Fatback Band,
The Five Americans,
Sandy B,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Alison Limerick,
Basic Channel,
Eddi Front,
the Swans,
Mars,
Ituana,
Boredoms,
Leonard Cohen,
Minnie Riperton,
The Fortunes,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.