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 Ghana and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Robert Palmer 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 The Dave Clark Five 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 The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ 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 marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
Interpol,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Barrington Levy,
LL Cool J,
MDC,
Scott Walker,
Agitation Free,
The Black Dice,
B.T. Express,
JFA,
Pierre Henry,
Marshall Jefferson,
Mad Mike,
T.S.O.L.,
Marine Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Barry Ungar,
Little Man,
Unwound,
John Coltrane,
Mr. Review,
Hot Snakes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Funky Four + One,
Nico,
Hoover,
Infiniti,
Fugazi,
Wally Richardson,
Babytalk,
Arab on Radar,
The Doobie Brothers,
L. Decosne,
Kevin Saunderson,
Moby Grape,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lightning Bolt,
Peter and Kerry,
Mission of Burma,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Arcadia,
Sandy B,
Reagan Youth,
Black Moon,
Tears for Fears,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ludus,
Eden Ahbez,
Throbbing Gristle,
Marc Almond,
Animal Collective,
The Skatalites,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lindisfarne,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pussy Galore,
Kerri Chandler,
Dennis Brown,
Supertramp,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.