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 Libya and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bill Wells 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
John Coltrane,
Marc Almond,
Bobby Sherman,
Half Japanese,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Blake Baxter,
Moby Grape,
the Association,
Simply Red,
Underground Resistance,
Procol Harum,
The Cramps,
Bad Manners,
Mark Hollis,
Outsiders,
Chris Corsano,
Radiohead,
Quando Quango,
Slave,
Bang On A Can,
Roxy Music,
Tears for Fears,
Angry Samoans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Christie,
The Zeros,
China Crisis,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Associates,
Oneida,
Pere Ubu,
Loose Ends,
Dead Boys,
Theoretical Girls,
Minnie Riperton,
MDC,
Eric Copeland,
The Gories,
Vainqueur,
June Days,
Delon & Dalcan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oblivians,
David McCallum,
Darondo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Godley & Creme,
Stetsasonic,
Index,
Camouflage,
Blossom Toes,
Danielle Patucci,
Von Mondo,
Sugar Minott,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Monochrome Set,
Deakin,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pierre Henry,
Letta Mbulu,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.