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 Afghanistan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Red Krayola 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 the Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fortunes,
The Techniques,
Tomorrow,
Girls At Our Best!,
Amon Düül,
Wasted Youth,
Cybotron,
Icehouse,
Rosa Yemen,
PIL,
Outsiders,
Skriet,
Chris Corsano,
Eddi Front,
Von Mondo,
Michelle Simonal,
Neil Young,
Alphaville,
Derrick May,
Hoover,
Model 500,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Barracudas,
Khruangbin,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Babytalk,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Quando Quango,
LL Cool J,
Pet Shop Boys,
Section 25,
Loose Ends,
Mo-Dettes,
Ice-T,
Basic Channel,
Cluster,
Lyres,
Pulsallama,
Sonic Youth,
Crime,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Reuben Wilson,
Urselle,
Anthony Braxton,
B.T. Express,
The Skatalites,
John Coltrane,
The Vogues,
Eli Mardock,
AZ,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joe Finger,
Swans,
Essential Logic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Soft Machine,
The Busters,
Darondo,
Los Fastidios,
Cheater Slicks,
Joe Smooth,
Ken Boothe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.