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 Portugal and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 chamberlin 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 Frankie Knuckles to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Massinfluence,
Metal Thangz,
Lalo Schifrin,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Minny Pops,
Althea and Donna,
The Gories,
New Order,
Nirvana,
10cc,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pole,
Laurel Aitken,
Marine Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobbi Humphrey,
World's Most,
Delon & Dalcan,
Con Funk Shun,
The Offenders,
Icehouse,
The Dead C,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
OOIOO,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kool Moe Dee,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Association,
Lou Christie,
June Days,
Robert Görl,
The Pop Group,
Arthur Verocai,
Au Pairs,
Stetsasonic,
Jeru the Damaja,
Mandrill,
David Bowie,
Aural Exciters,
Scan 7,
Fad Gadget,
The Martian,
Cheater Slicks,
Charles Mingus,
Sun Ra,
Tears for Fears,
Mars,
Gang Green,
K-Klass,
Sugar Minott,
Bang On A Can,
The Electric Prunes,
ABC,
Robert Wyatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funkadelic,
The Dirtbombs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Hoover,
Silicon Teens,
Kenny Larkin,
Model 500,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.