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 Dominican Republic and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Bobby Byrd to the electroclash 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 Royal Trux. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Motorama,
Radiohead,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kevin Saunderson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Icehouse,
Ituana,
Newcleus,
The Index,
Fad Gadget,
DJ Sneak,
Pet Shop Boys,
Duran Duran,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
New Age Steppers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
ABBA,
The Skatalites,
Ossler,
Trumans Water,
World's Most,
One Last Wish,
Simply Red,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sister Nancy,
Ornette Coleman,
The Grass Roots,
Leonard Cohen,
JFA,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
FM Einheit,
Heaven 17,
The Cure,
The Wake,
Mad Mike,
Chrome,
Barrington Levy,
Liliput,
Basic Channel,
Jandek,
Marine Girls,
Junior Murvin,
Swans,
DJ Style,
Cecil Taylor,
Max Romeo,
Sonic Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aloha Tigers,
A Certain Ratio,
Byron Stingily,
Moss Icon,
Eli Mardock,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scientists,
The Dead C,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Zero Boys,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.