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 Estonia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro 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 Mark Hollis to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Toasters. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Traffic Nightmare,
Sun City Girls,
Zero Boys,
Depeche Mode,
Cluster,
Popol Vuh,
Sonny Sharrock,
These Immortal Souls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Malaria!,
Metal Thangz,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Howard Jones,
Easy Going,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Das Ding,
Blake Baxter,
Stockholm Monsters,
Eli Mardock,
Mr. Review,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Slick Rick,
Charles Mingus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Evens,
Animal Collective,
The Blackbyrds,
Marvin Gaye,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Flash Fearless,
ABC,
The Saints,
Alton Ellis,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yazoo,
The Five Americans,
Reuben Wilson,
Warsaw,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Human League,
The Birthday Party,
Bill Near,
The Buckinghams,
Bauhaus,
Letta Mbulu,
The American Breed,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gichy Dan,
Colin Newman,
Panda Bear,
Moss Icon,
The Grass Roots,
Oblivians,
Freddie Wadling,
Tim Buckley,
ABBA,
Lakeside,
Pantaleimon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Arcadia,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.