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 Australia and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Hasil Adkins,
Minny Pops,
JFA,
CMW,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Shuggie Otis,
Cluster,
Subhumans,
The Evens,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Fire Engines,
The Birthday Party,
Ituana,
Toni Rubio,
Little Man,
Loose Ends,
E-Dancer,
Harpers Bizarre,
K-Klass,
Iggy Pop,
Kool Moe Dee,
Davy DMX,
The Angels of Light,
The Walker Brothers,
Hoover,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Intrusion,
Crispy Ambulance,
Godley & Creme,
Morten Harket,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Oneida,
Franke,
L. Decosne,
The Gun Club,
Unrelated Segments,
The Busters,
Joe Smooth,
Matthew Bourne,
Young Marble Giants,
Adolescents,
One Last Wish,
Flamin' Groovies,
Judy Mowatt,
Scott Walker,
Brothers Johnson,
Spandau Ballet,
D'Angelo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Symarip,
Sonic Youth,
Flash Fearless,
The Skatalites,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sun Ra,
The Sound,
Japan,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.