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 United States and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 The Raincoats to the electroclash 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 Blossom Toes. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
La Düsseldorf,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rekid,
Sarah Menescal,
Pantaleimon,
Soulsonic Force,
Marvin Gaye,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stiv Bators,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Massinfluence,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sun Ra,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eddi Front,
Underground Resistance,
Amon Düül II,
Pere Ubu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Mad Mike,
X-102,
ABC,
Terry Callier,
Arthur Verocai,
Joe Finger,
Section 25,
Rakim,
The Fall,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Tom Boy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fatback Band,
Junior Murvin,
Outsiders,
Quando Quango,
Echospace,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Morten Harket,
Scion,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scientists,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Jerry's Kids,
Andrew Hill,
Sandy B,
Severed Heads,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Radiohead,
Lakeside,
Fear,
The Move,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.