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 Ethiopia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Davy DMX to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Barry Ungar,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lindisfarne,
Zapp,
UT,
Soft Machine,
Babytalk,
JFA,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Aaron Thompson,
Erykah Badu,
Piero Umiliani,
The Divine Comedy,
Eve St. Jones,
The Barracudas,
Hashim,
Easy Going,
The Count Five,
Sparks,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Associates,
Gregory Isaacs,
Albert Ayler,
The Gladiators,
Groovy Waters,
Von Mondo,
The Detroit Cobras,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lungfish,
Moby Grape,
Sister Nancy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pierre Henry,
Mr. Review,
Royal Trux,
Ludus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ultra Naté,
Avey Tare,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Names,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Accadde A,
The Doors,
Scrapy,
Minnie Riperton,
The Pretty Things,
Prince Buster,
Sound Behaviour,
The United States of America,
Pole,
X-101,
Japan,
Lightning Bolt,
The Five Americans,
The Wake,
Cheater Slicks,
Suburban Knight,
X-102,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.