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 Iraq 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 June of 44 to the disco 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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All The Saints tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Goldenarms,
Y Pants,
Parry Music,
Sparks,
Model 500,
Monks,
Little Man,
Sun City Girls,
Ken Boothe,
Aloha Tigers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Chrome,
OOIOO,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fluxion,
Gang Gang Dance,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Mandrill,
Alison Limerick,
Au Pairs,
Eric B and Rakim,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Leaves,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Popol Vuh,
Nas,
Josef K,
Lalann,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wire,
ABC,
Amon Düül II,
EPMD,
John Holt,
The Kinks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Icehouse,
Animal Collective,
X-102,
Kool Moe Dee,
Interpol,
Echospace,
Mad Mike,
The Mojo Men,
kango's stein massive,
Chris & Cosey,
China Crisis,
The Monks,
H. Thieme,
Quadrant,
Dual Sessions,
David McCallum,
Erasure,
Connie Case,
Skarface,
Crash Course in Science,
Ralphi Rosario,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.