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 San Marino and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 Flipper to the jazz 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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
Talk Talk,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bluetip,
Grey Daturas,
Main Source,
Eli Mardock,
Siglo XX,
the Bar-Kays,
Kool Moe Dee,
Darondo,
Clear Light,
Marcia Griffiths,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Count Five,
Bobby Byrd,
The Cramps,
Dual Sessions,
Duran Duran,
Fear,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Nirvana,
Lucky Dragons,
Wally Richardson,
Whodini,
Monolake,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ludus,
L. Decosne,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Buckinghams,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Gap Band,
Deakin,
Juan Atkins,
Subhumans,
Ten City,
Franke,
Ituana,
Negative Approach,
Mr. Review,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Young Rascals,
Roxette,
cv313,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Faraquet,
Chrome,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dark Day,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Derrick Morgan,
Camouflage,
Pole,
New Order,
Neu!,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Crooked Eye,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.