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 Bangladesh and from Lyon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Second Layer to the jazz 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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Searchers,
The Wake,
The Offenders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
D'Angelo,
Todd Terry,
Flipper,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lungfish,
Q and Not U,
the Normal,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Japan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Unwound,
Man Parrish,
Agitation Free,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sonic Youth,
The Golliwogs,
FM Einheit,
Pantytec,
the Slits,
Wally Richardson,
Chris Corsano,
Albert Ayler,
Von Mondo,
a-ha,
Los Fastidios,
The United States of America,
Sun City Girls,
Loose Ends,
Schoolly D,
Robert Hood,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Niagra,
Stetsasonic,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Skatalites,
James White and The Blacks,
Animal Collective,
Michelle Simonal,
Scientists,
Archie Shepp,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Kayak,
Popol Vuh,
Tears for Fears,
Marshall Jefferson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
OOIOO,
The Angels of Light,
Aural Exciters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bauhaus,
R.M.O.,
Minny Pops,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
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.