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 Uzbekistan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Grauzone to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Quadrant,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sex Pistols,
The Beau Brummels,
Nick Fraelich,
Slick Rick,
Gregory Isaacs,
H. Thieme,
Jeff Lynne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Chris & Cosey,
Brand Nubian,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DNA,
Eve St. Jones,
Barry Ungar,
The Last Poets,
Johnny Clarke,
Gichy Dan,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Doobie Brothers,
New Order,
Joy Division,
Joey Negro,
Lucky Dragons,
DJ Sneak,
David Axelrod,
Flash Fearless,
World's Most,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Masters at Work,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dual Sessions,
Swans,
Fluxion,
Bootsy Collins,
Hardrive,
Television Personalities,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nirvana,
OOIOO,
New Age Steppers,
Patti Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Oneida,
Erasure,
Deepchord,
Pylon,
Lightning Bolt,
The Kinks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Altered Images,
Archie Shepp,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Talk Talk,
Jacques Brel,
Thompson Twins,
10cc,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sun Ra,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.