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 Nauru and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Silicon Teens to the techno 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Franke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
The Durutti Column,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Deepchord,
Gabor Szabo,
The Seeds,
Trumans Water,
The Toasters,
Massinfluence,
Erykah Badu,
Ronnie Foster,
Lou Reed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moby Grape,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bang On A Can,
Cluster,
Excepter,
The Happenings,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Raincoats,
Von Mondo,
ABBA,
Marcia Griffiths,
Peter & Gordon,
Barbara Tucker,
Black Bananas,
The Kinks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Con Funk Shun,
Man Parrish,
Junior Murvin,
The Dirtbombs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fortunes,
Lalann,
Ohio Players,
Crispian St. Peters,
Anthony Braxton,
Schoolly D,
Tomorrow,
Intrusion,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camouflage,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Red Krayola,
Morten Harket,
Nils Olav,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Marvin Gaye,
Bronski Beat,
The Misunderstood,
Blancmange,
Quadrant,
Smog,
Rufus Thomas,
Grauzone,
The Cowsills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.