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 Rwanda and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Rod Modell to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
The Grass Roots,
Sun Ra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sparks,
Smog,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Association,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jandek,
Average White Band,
Neil Young,
The Move,
Ponytail,
Yellowson,
Tomorrow,
Tropical Tobacco,
The United States of America,
Franke,
Sexual Harrassment,
David McCallum,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Shuggie Otis,
Los Fastidios,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kayak,
Young Marble Giants,
Dave Gahan,
Magma,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tim Buckley,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kenny Larkin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wings,
Thee Headcoats,
Television Personalities,
The Neon Judgement,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Banda Bassotti,
The Sonics,
Roxette,
Flipper,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rosa Yemen,
The Blackbyrds,
Joey Negro,
Grauzone,
Donny Hathaway,
the Human League,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hot Snakes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marvin Gaye,
Crash Course in Science,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Raincoats,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.