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 Papua New Guinea and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Pierre Henry to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Joyce Sims,
Television,
Soft Cell,
Cameo,
Skaos,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jeff Lynne,
Marine Girls,
Crispian St. Peters,
MDC,
The Monks,
The Blackbyrds,
The Durutti Column,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hot Snakes,
The Busters,
Clear Light,
Brass Construction,
The Associates,
Warsaw,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jeff Mills,
Scrapy,
The Blues Magoos,
Eve St. Jones,
Matthew Halsall,
Massinfluence,
The Gladiators,
Mark Hollis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Youth Brigade,
Eric Copeland,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ludus,
Delta 5,
Todd Rundgren,
Josef K,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fort Wilson Riot,
David McCallum,
Moebius,
Gil Scott Heron,
Groovy Waters,
Erasure,
Big Daddy Kane,
X-101,
Soul II Soul,
Dark Day,
Lyres,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Flesh Eaters,
Agitation Free,
The Happenings,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.