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 Rwanda and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Hong Kong.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Residents to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Kas Product,
Peter and Kerry,
Scion,
Young Marble Giants,
Metal Thangz,
Heaven 17,
Bronski Beat,
UT,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jacques Brel,
The Victims,
Joey Negro,
Bill Wells,
Shoche,
Unwound,
Nirvana,
Second Layer,
Roy Ayers,
Joy Division,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Index,
Oneida,
Johnny Osbourne,
Technova,
The Young Rascals,
Robert Görl,
In Retrospect,
Television,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Fear,
Scan 7,
Sandy B,
Lee Hazlewood,
Skarface,
The Tremeloes,
Morten Harket,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Matthew Halsall,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rosa Yemen,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pussy Galore,
Loose Ends,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ultimate Spinach,
New Age Steppers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nick Fraelich,
The Misunderstood,
Funky Four + One,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sixth Finger,
Hashim,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Delta 5,
Make Up,
Arab on Radar,
Dark Day,
Anthony Braxton,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.