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 France and from Cairo.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Eurythmics to the rock 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 The Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
Heaven 17,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gregory Isaacs,
Todd Terry,
Peter and Kerry,
Adolescents,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aloha Tigers,
Morten Harket,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Godley & Creme,
Soft Cell,
Underground Resistance,
Agent Orange,
Boredoms,
Lucky Dragons,
Robert Wyatt,
DNA,
LL Cool J,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
David Bowie,
Sister Nancy,
Scott Walker,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Hoover,
Can,
Agitation Free,
Delta 5,
Girls At Our Best!,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Unrelated Segments,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Alphaville,
Ultravox,
Motorama,
Minnie Riperton,
Pierre Henry,
Aural Exciters,
Grauzone,
Man Eating Sloth,
Matthew Bourne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Technova,
Bang On A Can,
Metal Thangz,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gong,
Reagan Youth,
The Blackbyrds,
Tom Boy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Donny Hathaway,
Max Romeo,
Al Stewart,
Bobby Sherman,
The Dirtbombs,
Zapp,
The Gap Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.