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 Kyrgyzstan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ornette Coleman to the techno 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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pantytec,
Maleditus Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Interpol,
Quando Quango,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Moss Icon,
Con Funk Shun,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Juan Atkins,
Magma,
The Saints,
Suicide,
Cameo,
David Bowie,
Spandau Ballet,
Symarip,
Ohio Players,
Moby Grape,
Patti Smith,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Basic Channel,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Golliwogs,
Pussy Galore,
Drexciya,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gun Club,
Monolake,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rakim,
The Evens,
Danielle Patucci,
Saccharine Trust,
Heaven 17,
Scrapy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tubeway Army,
Country Teasers,
Susan Cadogan,
Organ,
Funkadelic,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Associates,
Quantec,
The Fortunes,
Cal Tjader,
Joey Negro,
World's Most,
Aloha Tigers,
Peter & Gordon,
The Five Americans,
Marmalade,
Eve St. Jones,
The Raincoats,
Livin' Joy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lakeside,
Alison Limerick,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.