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 Mexico and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Connie Case to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Livin' Joy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Charles Mingus,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nirvana,
Radio Birdman,
Eurythmics,
The Happenings,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Motions,
This Heat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric Copeland,
Tropical Tobacco,
kango's stein massive,
Lower 48,
Infiniti,
Thee Headcoats,
The Moody Blues,
The Litter,
Eli Mardock,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pylon,
The Smoke,
Nik Kershaw,
Accadde A,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
D'Angelo,
Rapeman,
Liliput,
Cymande,
Kayak,
The Skatalites,
U.S. Maple,
Rotary Connection,
Massinfluence,
Grauzone,
Glambeats Corp.,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Motorama,
Pere Ubu,
8 Eyed Spy,
Procol Harum,
Marine Girls,
Guru Guru,
Roxy Music,
ABBA,
Cybotron,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ken Boothe,
Vladislav Delay,
Pet Shop Boys,
Arthur Verocai,
The Gap Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Blackbyrds,
AZ,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Gun Club,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soft Machine,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.