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 Singapore and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Roxette to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang On A Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Symarip,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Magma,
The Pop Group,
Excepter,
Easy Going,
Roy Ayers,
Kerri Chandler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Darondo,
The Evens,
The Standells,
Junior Murvin,
The Grass Roots,
The Kinks,
Lakeside,
Ten City,
The Dirtbombs,
Rekid,
David Bowie,
Hot Snakes,
Electric Prunes,
Funkadelic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Groovy Waters,
Derrick May,
New York Dolls,
Colin Newman,
the Germs,
Warsaw,
The Gun Club,
John Coltrane,
The Black Dice,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Cale,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Move,
Barrington Levy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Erasure,
a-ha,
JFA,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sound Behaviour,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lungfish,
Sonic Youth,
Yaz,
Isaac Hayes,
The Tremeloes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
X-102,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dark Day,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funky Four + One,
Qualms,
Jacques Brel,
Franke,
Mark Hollis,
Blossom Toes,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gichy Dan,
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.