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 Colombia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Modern Lovers,
Cecil Taylor,
The Electric Prunes,
Steve Hackett,
The Fire Engines,
ABBA,
Can,
the Slits,
Blake Baxter,
Procol Harum,
Joe Smooth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kaleidoscope,
Sällskapet,
Erykah Badu,
The Angels of Light,
Crime,
Colin Newman,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Divine Comedy,
Mad Mike,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fugs,
The Happenings,
Tears for Fears,
a-ha,
Girls At Our Best!,
Idris Muhammad,
Eli Mardock,
Ultimate Spinach,
cv313,
Stetsasonic,
Rod Modell,
The Moody Blues,
Ponytail,
The Selecter,
John Coltrane,
X-101,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nico,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lalann,
Pole,
Slave,
Iggy Pop,
Sun Ra,
Ituana,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Smoke,
John Cale,
Pagans,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Severed Heads,
Thee Headcoats,
Erasure,
Crispian St. Peters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.