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 Denmark and from Johannesburg.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Interpol to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
Judy Mowatt,
Gong,
Jeff Mills,
Accadde A,
Depeche Mode,
Barclay James Harvest,
Peter & Gordon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Can,
Unrelated Segments,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Joensuu 1685,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Au Pairs,
Tears for Fears,
Soft Cell,
The Wake,
the Human League,
The Cure,
Cameo,
Ohio Players,
The Searchers,
Nirvana,
Fluxion,
Sam Rivers,
UT,
Groovy Waters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eric Copeland,
Rosa Yemen,
Harpers Bizarre,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Toni Rubio,
R.M.O.,
Gichy Dan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sister Nancy,
The Electric Prunes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ponytail,
Skarface,
One Last Wish,
Howard Jones,
Main Source,
The Tremeloes,
Josef K,
Hoover,
Johnny Osbourne,
Man Parrish,
Barry Ungar,
The J.B.'s,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Avey Tare,
The Skatalites,
The Residents,
The Barracudas,
The Human League,
David Bowie,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Swans,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.