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 Montenegro and from Shanghai.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Calgary.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
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 China Crisis to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
Arab on Radar,
E-Dancer,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Fuzztones,
The Five Americans,
Zero Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
X-102,
Chris & Cosey,
Surgeon,
Amazonics,
Wasted Youth,
David Axelrod,
Tres Demented,
cv313,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Make Up,
The Star Department,
Erykah Badu,
Soft Cell,
Sister Nancy,
Altered Images,
The Barracudas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scott Walker,
Severed Heads,
The Golliwogs,
Henry Cow,
Black Sheep,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Grandmaster Flash,
Man Eating Sloth,
Derrick May,
The Music Machine,
The Cosmic Jokers,
John Coltrane,
The Sonics,
Lungfish,
Camouflage,
Ponytail,
The Residents,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Moleskins,
The Associates,
The Vogues,
Albert Ayler,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ice-T,
Kool Moe Dee,
Joe Finger,
Flash Fearless,
Thee Headcoats,
Aaron Thompson,
Sandy B,
The Monks,
Pulsallama,
The Zeros,
Rufus Thomas,
The Fall,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.