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 Georgia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lungfish to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
ABBA,
Reagan Youth,
Lee Hazlewood,
Moby Grape,
Soft Cell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Grass Roots,
Suburban Knight,
Y Pants,
Joe Smooth,
Nas,
Lightning Bolt,
The Flesh Eaters,
New Order,
a-ha,
Neu!,
DJ Style,
Fugazi,
Lalo Schifrin,
Shoche,
China Crisis,
Leonard Cohen,
Quando Quango,
Mark Hollis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Amazonics,
Accadde A,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Womack,
The Birthday Party,
World's Most,
Pussy Galore,
The Last Poets,
Unwound,
The Move,
Young Marble Giants,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kayak,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lalann,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Suicide,
The United States of America,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Franke,
Sällskapet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Panda Bear,
The Angels of Light,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joyce Sims,
Drive Like Jehu,
Brass Construction,
Susan Cadogan,
The Happenings,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.