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 France and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 sitar 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 Flash Fearless to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All The Fire Engines 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 techno 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 güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Massinfluence,
Eve St. Jones,
Panda Bear,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bill Near,
David McCallum,
Model 500,
Patti Smith,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rites of Spring,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tubeway Army,
Minny Pops,
Basic Channel,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bill Wells,
Infiniti,
Das Ding,
The Mummies,
Bobby Sherman,
Delon & Dalcan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rosa Yemen,
Gong,
The Seeds,
Deadbeat,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Warren Ellis,
Negative Approach,
Rod Modell,
Agent Orange,
Scrapy,
Donny Hathaway,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Index,
Delta 5,
Dual Sessions,
Marvin Gaye,
James White and The Blacks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ludus,
D'Angelo,
Quantec,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skaos,
Wasted Youth,
The Star Department,
Motorama,
Rotary Connection,
Inner City,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Electric Prunes,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Martian,
Radiopuhelimet,
Glambeats Corp.,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jeru the Damaja,
Alton Ellis,
Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment.
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.