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 Libya and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 linndrum 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 Sarah Menescal to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Guru Guru,
Massinfluence,
Hoover,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Minny Pops,
Hardrive,
Deadbeat,
Animal Collective,
Sun City Girls,
EPMD,
Young Marble Giants,
It's A Beautiful Day,
CMW,
Second Layer,
The Fall,
Pole,
Iggy Pop,
Gerry Rafferty,
Model 500,
Jawbox,
Joe Finger,
Tomorrow,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nik Kershaw,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Swans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lower 48,
New Age Steppers,
Radiopuhelimet,
Alton Ellis,
The Tremeloes,
Neil Young,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Happenings,
Gang Starr,
Junior Murvin,
Bronski Beat,
The Electric Prunes,
ABC,
Anakelly,
Marine Girls,
The Skatalites,
Prince Buster,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Steve Hackett,
Interpol,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yazoo,
The United States of America,
AZ,
Urselle,
Fad Gadget,
Lalann,
MC5,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ohio Players,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Whodini,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.