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 Azerbaijan and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 clarinet 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 New York Dolls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pagans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Derrick Morgan,
Soul II Soul,
The Slackers,
Barrington Levy,
Eurythmics,
Reuben Wilson,
Althea and Donna,
Idris Muhammad,
Tomorrow,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kas Product,
Altered Images,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Modern Lovers,
The Cramps,
Donald Byrd,
Aswad,
Subhumans,
The Divine Comedy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Fire Engines,
James White and The Blacks,
Mission of Burma,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bauhaus,
Aloha Tigers,
Can,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Offenders,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gichy Dan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minnie Riperton,
Mr. Review,
Fela Kuti,
The Busters,
Sugar Minott,
Leonard Cohen,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DJ Style,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Gories,
Inner City,
Gerry Rafferty,
Icehouse,
X-101,
Spoonie Gee,
China Crisis,
Heaven 17,
DNA,
H. Thieme,
Robert Görl,
Ludus,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wings,
Audionom,
Nirvana,
Albert Ayler,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.