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 Venezuela and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Philadelphia.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 MDC to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deadbeat,
Delta 5,
The Birthday Party,
Drexciya,
Average White Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Bobbi Humphrey,
K-Klass,
Bob Dylan,
Can,
The Count Five,
Sound Behaviour,
Pylon,
The Smiths,
Flash Fearless,
The Seeds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Silicon Teens,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gang of Four,
The Standells,
JFA,
Lucky Dragons,
Basic Channel,
The Pop Group,
The Vogues,
The Trojans,
the Soft Cell,
Tim Buckley,
Index,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Michelle Simonal,
The Slackers,
The Five Americans,
Cameo,
Arthur Verocai,
The Fire Engines,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Q65,
Echospace,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Searchers,
ABC,
Fugazi,
Gang Starr,
Pulsallama,
Whodini,
The Cure,
Donald Byrd,
Loose Ends,
Fluxion,
The Modern Lovers,
Spandau Ballet,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cymande,
Slave,
Bobby Sherman,
Man Parrish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.