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 Qatar and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rotary Connection to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Altered Images,
Animal Collective,
8 Eyed Spy,
Qualms,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Funkadelic,
Toni Rubio,
Flamin' Groovies,
Arthur Verocai,
Susan Cadogan,
Sam Rivers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Basic Channel,
The Fortunes,
The Wake,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Evens,
The Litter,
X-102,
Eric Copeland,
Ponytail,
The J.B.'s,
Newcleus,
The Searchers,
The Residents,
Neu!,
Glenn Branca,
Nik Kershaw,
Aswad,
Kenny Larkin,
MDC,
Surgeon,
Royal Trux,
Masters at Work,
The Slits,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joyce Sims,
Jesper Dahlback,
Visage,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Warren Ellis,
The Fugs,
Cameo,
Ossler,
Spandau Ballet,
Girls At Our Best!,
Black Sheep,
Trumans Water,
Harry Pussy,
Japan,
Roxy Music,
The Seeds,
Vladislav Delay,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Stooges,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.