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 Korea North and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Index to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Yaz,
The Raincoats,
Symarip,
New Age Steppers,
Sight & Sound,
Von Mondo,
The Fortunes,
The Dirtbombs,
Pole,
Amon Düül II,
Eric Dolphy,
Interpol,
Quadrant,
The Toasters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Blackbyrds,
The Count Five,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rekid,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Beau Brummels,
8 Eyed Spy,
June Days,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jimmy McGriff,
T.S.O.L.,
Fear,
Khruangbin,
Youth Brigade,
Roger Hodgson,
Soulsonic Force,
David Axelrod,
Can,
ABBA,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Depeche Mode,
Los Fastidios,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Whodini,
Yazoo,
Section 25,
Goldenarms,
Fat Boys,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
AZ,
Ralphi Rosario,
Letta Mbulu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rod Modell,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gang Gang Dance,
Nirvana,
Josef K,
Icehouse,
Danielle Patucci,
Metal Thangz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Monks,
This Heat,
the Germs,
K-Klass,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.