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 Cambodia and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Portland.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Vainqueur to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Letta Mbulu,
K-Klass,
Yusef Lateef,
Khruangbin,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Fela Kuti,
Agent Orange,
Procol Harum,
The Birthday Party,
The Cowsills,
Gabor Szabo,
The Durutti Column,
Dark Day,
cv313,
Suicide,
Panda Bear,
Matthew Halsall,
Patti Smith,
Scratch Acid,
Scientists,
Roxy Music,
Public Enemy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Main Source,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sound,
Fad Gadget,
Severed Heads,
Monks,
New Age Steppers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Red Krayola,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Simply Red,
Tomorrow,
F. McDonald,
The Kinks,
The United States of America,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Magma,
Sex Pistols,
The Gap Band,
Porter Ricks,
Unrelated Segments,
Barrington Levy,
Lower 48,
The Gladiators,
Von Mondo,
John Cale,
Tom Boy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
X-102,
Bob Dylan,
Minnie Riperton,
Stereo Dub,
Scion,
Half Japanese,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.