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 Kuwait and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
These Immortal Souls,
Carl Craig,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jawbox,
Soft Cell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Erasure,
Rakim,
The Index,
L. Decosne,
the Fania All-Stars,
Symarip,
Pantaleimon,
Simply Red,
The Leaves,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The New Christs,
Scott Walker,
The Techniques,
Brand Nubian,
Delon & Dalcan,
Electric Prunes,
Faust,
Connie Case,
Gabor Szabo,
the Slits,
Pole,
Blancmange,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Aswad,
Country Joe & The Fish,
8 Eyed Spy,
Patti Smith,
The Five Americans,
Moebius,
New Age Steppers,
Joe Finger,
Little Man,
Nik Kershaw,
Y Pants,
Susan Cadogan,
Minutemen,
Tomorrow,
Pet Shop Boys,
Freddie Wadling,
Alton Ellis,
Dennis Brown,
Gang Starr,
Massinfluence,
Byron Stingily,
Goldenarms,
Roxette,
La Düsseldorf,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Joensuu 1685,
Maurizio,
Avey Tare,
Qualms,
Todd Rundgren,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.