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 Dominican Republic and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the organ 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
Niagra,
Bill Wells,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dual Sessions,
The Zeros,
Ohio Players,
Vainqueur,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jerry's Kids,
Ultra Naté,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Los Fastidios,
John Lydon,
New Age Steppers,
Kaleidoscope,
Marshall Jefferson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sex Pistols,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jesper Dahlback,
The New Christs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Slick Rick,
Siglo XX,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skriet,
Inner City,
Magma,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cluster,
Groovy Waters,
Bronski Beat,
Hoover,
Drexciya,
Neil Young,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Duran Duran,
Piero Umiliani,
Soulsonic Force,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Teasers,
T. Rex,
Rotary Connection,
Lalo Schifrin,
Hot Snakes,
The Offenders,
Eli Mardock,
Jeff Mills,
Vladislav Delay,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rakim,
Main Source,
Masters at Work,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dennis Brown,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
MC5,
Motorama,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.