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 Vanuatu and from Copenhagen.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Soul Sonic Force to the rap 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Gong,
Joe Smooth,
Los Fastidios,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Todd Rundgren,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Oblivians,
Rosa Yemen,
OOIOO,
A Certain Ratio,
Ronan,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Fire Engines,
ABC,
Matthew Bourne,
The Stooges,
Kerrie Biddell,
Smog,
Sonny Sharrock,
Oneida,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Leonard Cohen,
Babytalk,
Todd Terry,
The Searchers,
The Gladiators,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Von Mondo,
The Cure,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ronnie Foster,
Toni Rubio,
Dawn Penn,
Visage,
Surgeon,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Vladislav Delay,
Dual Sessions,
These Immortal Souls,
Susan Cadogan,
Slick Rick,
Delon & Dalcan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Crispy Ambulance,
Donald Byrd,
kango's stein massive,
Eden Ahbez,
The J.B.'s,
Warsaw,
The Blues Magoos,
Scratch Acid,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Divine Comedy,
The Wake,
Terry Callier,
The Neon Judgement,
Pulsallama,
Mars,
A Flock of Seagulls,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.