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 Senegal and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 sitar 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 Lalann to the jazz 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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
X-Ray Spex,
Essential Logic,
Mark Hollis,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sparks,
Ronan,
Pantytec,
Heaven 17,
Crime,
10cc,
The Cure,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eric Dolphy,
Wally Richardson,
Hardrive,
The Moleskins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Erasure,
The Young Rascals,
Rekid,
Agent Orange,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Fuzztones,
The Saints,
The Leaves,
Carl Craig,
Brick,
Black Sheep,
CMW,
Maurizio,
Talk Talk,
Neu!,
Ituana,
Blossom Toes,
Cal Tjader,
H. Thieme,
Y Pants,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eden Ahbez,
Negative Approach,
Audionom,
David Axelrod,
The Dirtbombs,
Wire,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jimmy McGriff,
a-ha,
Young Marble Giants,
The Tremeloes,
Icehouse,
Ossler,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Associates,
Aural Exciters,
Johnny Osbourne,
Crooked Eye,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Morten Harket,
Wings,
Althea and Donna,
Zapp,
Ornette Coleman,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.