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 Denmark and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lebanon Hanover to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Quando Quango,
Graham Central Station,
Archie Shepp,
Junior Murvin,
Negative Approach,
Eden Ahbez,
Roxy Music,
Scan 7,
Dave Gahan,
Joensuu 1685,
Inner City,
Porter Ricks,
Symarip,
Joe Smooth,
Fluxion,
Janne Schatter,
Max Romeo,
Ultimate Spinach,
Public Enemy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Second Layer,
Nas,
The Modern Lovers,
Wings,
David Bowie,
Warren Ellis,
Icehouse,
Smog,
The Gun Club,
Flash Fearless,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Victims,
Sight & Sound,
The Martian,
June of 44,
Deepchord,
Boredoms,
Rufus Thomas,
The Fugs,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gang Gang Dance,
Idris Muhammad,
Anthony Braxton,
Cybotron,
Kayak,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
T.S.O.L.,
Glenn Branca,
Fort Wilson Riot,
KRS-One,
Tim Buckley,
Roy Ayers,
The Slackers,
Ossler,
The Black Dice,
Rhythm & Sound,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
U.S. Maple,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.