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 Senegal and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 spring reverb 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 Skarface to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Association. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Max Romeo,
DJ Style,
The Electric Prunes,
Oblivians,
Erykah Badu,
The Gap Band,
Jacob Miller,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Funky Four + One,
Ultra Naté,
Dennis Brown,
The Trojans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ultravox,
Bootsy Collins,
Tom Boy,
Angry Samoans,
Crash Course in Science,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Star Department,
D'Angelo,
The Fugs,
Royal Trux,
8 Eyed Spy,
Grauzone,
Lebanon Hanover,
Silicon Teens,
Altered Images,
Groovy Waters,
David Axelrod,
Sugar Minott,
The Invisible,
Depeche Mode,
Kerri Chandler,
The Moleskins,
Pulsallama,
Jeff Lynne,
A Certain Ratio,
Surgeon,
EPMD,
Boredoms,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Big Daddy Kane,
Johnny Clarke,
The Mojo Men,
The Fuzztones,
JFA,
Massinfluence,
Malaria!,
Scan 7,
The Slackers,
Von Mondo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Smiths,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lightning Bolt,
Ituana,
Liliput,
Moebius,
Flash Fearless,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.