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 Mauritania and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Donald Fagen 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the dance 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Intrusion,
Todd Terry,
Crooked Eye,
John Foxx,
Derrick May,
Bizarre Inc.,
Donny Hathaway,
Crispian St. Peters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Supertramp,
UT,
Darondo,
Accadde A,
JFA,
Public Image Ltd.,
Guru Guru,
Black Pus,
Bill Wells,
Newcleus,
Ken Boothe,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Swans,
Surgeon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lyres,
Scan 7,
Tres Demented,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cameo,
Isaac Hayes,
Black Bananas,
The Mojo Men,
Camouflage,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fear,
Soft Cell,
Lalann,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Connie Case,
Ronan,
Swell Maps,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
David McCallum,
Patti Smith,
Basic Channel,
Big Daddy Kane,
Audionom,
Gong,
Ultravox,
Duran Duran,
Marine Girls,
Junior Murvin,
Avey Tare,
kango's stein massive,
Matthew Bourne,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mad Mike,
Nirvana,
Joe Finger,
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.