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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Young Rascals to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Warsaw,
Cecil Taylor,
The Happenings,
the Bar-Kays,
Subhumans,
DNA,
Ossler,
The Associates,
Bad Manners,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gang Starr,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scott Walker,
Chris & Cosey,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
John Holt,
Fad Gadget,
Theoretical Girls,
Skaos,
Deadbeat,
Public Image Ltd.,
Amon Düül II,
The Kinks,
Mad Mike,
Blossom Toes,
New Age Steppers,
Henry Cow,
Boredoms,
ABBA,
JFA,
The Neon Judgement,
The New Christs,
Kayak,
Gichy Dan,
L. Decosne,
Delta 5,
Derrick May,
Surgeon,
Yellowson,
H. Thieme,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Junior Murvin,
Goldenarms,
Parry Music,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
These Immortal Souls,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Leonard Cohen,
Hashim,
Nirvana,
Black Bananas,
Sun City Girls,
The Searchers,
Arab on Radar,
Rites of Spring,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.