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 Tajikistan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 oboe 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 The Detroit Cobras to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Livin' Joy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Au Pairs,
the Normal,
Fugazi,
Alison Limerick,
Lungfish,
Lower 48,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eli Mardock,
Supertramp,
Aloha Tigers,
The Busters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mark Hollis,
Dual Sessions,
KRS-One,
Radiohead,
X-101,
Mars,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Michelle Simonal,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Minnie Riperton,
The Modern Lovers,
The United States of America,
The Gap Band,
Carl Craig,
Chris Corsano,
Scientists,
Gabor Szabo,
The Monks,
The Selecter,
Soul II Soul,
Delon & Dalcan,
Q65,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Aswad,
Joe Smooth,
The Star Department,
Shuggie Otis,
X-Ray Spex,
Matthew Bourne,
the Swans,
Soulsonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Tubeway Army,
The American Breed,
Little Man,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Human League,
Anakelly,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Unwound,
Matthew Halsall,
ABBA,
Mantronix,
Crispian St. Peters,
Blossom Toes,
Dennis Brown,
Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim.
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.