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 Armenia and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 John Cale to the jazz 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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Boogie Down Productions,
R.M.O.,
One Last Wish,
Dead Boys,
K-Klass,
The Wake,
The Associates,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hoover,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Sonics,
Leonard Cohen,
Accadde A,
Porter Ricks,
Depeche Mode,
Flash Fearless,
Minnie Riperton,
Gastr Del Sol,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Freddie Wadling,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pole,
Bronski Beat,
The Five Americans,
David Bowie,
Michelle Simonal,
Eurythmics,
Flamin' Groovies,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
T. Rex,
The Cowsills,
Yusef Lateef,
Joe Smooth,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Television Personalities,
Scratch Acid,
Soul II Soul,
Q65,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fad Gadget,
The Human League,
Gichy Dan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mars,
The Walker Brothers,
Cheater Slicks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Audionom,
X-102,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gong,
Jacob Miller,
Ornette Coleman,
MC5,
Black Flag,
The Remains,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.