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 Kiribati and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Count Five to the jazz 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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet 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?
Gabor Szabo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ludus,
New Age Steppers,
Delta 5,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ken Boothe,
Easy Going,
Matthew Halsall,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Dead C,
World's Most,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Letta Mbulu,
Sixth Finger,
Frankie Knuckles,
Harry Pussy,
Severed Heads,
The Sonics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hot Snakes,
John Cale,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Saints,
U.S. Maple,
James White and The Blacks,
Sparks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Joe Finger,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Technova,
The Leaves,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Searchers,
Lucky Dragons,
Alice Coltrane,
Newcleus,
Pantaleimon,
OOIOO,
Michelle Simonal,
Fugazi,
Tears for Fears,
Jeru the Damaja,
La Düsseldorf,
Rhythm & Sound,
Susan Cadogan,
The American Breed,
Leonard Cohen,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Slackers,
the Sonics,
Lakeside,
Ronan,
Quantec,
Aswad,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Monochrome Set,
Das Ding,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.