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 Costa Rica and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 China Crisis to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spandau Ballet,
UT,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Derrick May,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Human League,
AZ,
Lucky Dragons,
Youth Brigade,
PIL,
New Order,
Swans,
Chrome,
ABBA,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Mummies,
Mission of Burma,
the Normal,
a-ha,
Robert Wyatt,
Easy Going,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Royal Trux,
Quadrant,
Crispian St. Peters,
Minutemen,
Wasted Youth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Subhumans,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ash Ra Tempel,
EPMD,
Rhythm & Sound,
Danielle Patucci,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Barracudas,
Technova,
Barry Ungar,
Shoche,
Arab on Radar,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lungfish,
Graham Central Station,
John Coltrane,
Erykah Badu,
Leonard Cohen,
Deepchord,
Crash Course in Science,
The Music Machine,
David Axelrod,
Echospace,
Average White Band,
Duran Duran,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Buzzcocks,
Radiopuhelimet,
Heaven 17,
Chris Corsano,
Skarface,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.