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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Woodstock.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manchester.
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 güiro 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 Das Ding to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mars,
The Victims,
Negative Approach,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Janne Schatter,
Cameo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Donny Hathaway,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Drexciya,
Alphaville,
Funky Four + One,
Moss Icon,
Visage,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cecil Taylor,
Scan 7,
Frankie Knuckles,
Porter Ricks,
Jeff Lynne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wally Richardson,
Skaos,
Soft Machine,
The Busters,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Techniques,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Magazine,
Blake Baxter,
Alice Coltrane,
Minutemen,
Moebius,
Rotary Connection,
Skarface,
Interpol,
Andrew Hill,
K-Klass,
Groovy Waters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cybotron,
The Raincoats,
The Monochrome Set,
The Count Five,
Kurtis Blow,
Second Layer,
Anakelly,
Rapeman,
Camouflage,
The Index,
New York Dolls,
Jawbox,
Stockholm Monsters,
Quando Quango,
The Trojans,
Kerri Chandler,
Piero Umiliani,
Althea and Donna,
The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills.
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.