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 Mali and from London.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Robert Palmer 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 Dave Gahan to the punk 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Vogues,
Faust,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Joe Finger,
Graham Central Station,
Tom Boy,
Massinfluence,
Camberwell Now,
Throbbing Gristle,
Erykah Badu,
Lakeside,
The Smiths,
the Human League,
Peter and Kerry,
Matthew Halsall,
Derrick May,
H. Thieme,
Yusef Lateef,
Franke,
Soulsonic Force,
John Holt,
Shoche,
The Black Dice,
The Pop Group,
Danielle Patucci,
Ice-T,
The Last Poets,
Magazine,
D'Angelo,
Soul II Soul,
Ultra Naté,
The Count Five,
Joy Division,
Wings,
New Order,
Flash Fearless,
48th St. Collective,
Robert Hood,
MDC,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Surgeon,
Hot Snakes,
Pantytec,
Mission of Burma,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Quando Quango,
Crispian St. Peters,
Barrington Levy,
Curtis Mayfield,
U.S. Maple,
Kerrie Biddell,
Talk Talk,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rekid,
Stiv Bators,
X-101,
Bill Near,
Barbara Tucker,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.