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 Ghana and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes 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 Minny Pops to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Inner City,
Outsiders,
Joy Division,
Drive Like Jehu,
Heaven 17,
Rekid,
Con Funk Shun,
Dennis Brown,
The Divine Comedy,
T.S.O.L.,
Hasil Adkins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Slick Rick,
Stockholm Monsters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Arthur Verocai,
Dave Gahan,
Tommy Roe,
Funkadelic,
Bobby Byrd,
Simply Red,
Technova,
Adolescents,
Ludus,
A Certain Ratio,
Ronnie Foster,
Rakim,
John Cale,
Los Fastidios,
Kurtis Blow,
Royal Trux,
Yazoo,
Erasure,
Mission of Burma,
Soft Machine,
Deepchord,
The Leaves,
The Walker Brothers,
Joey Negro,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Vogues,
Model 500,
The Barracudas,
Cheater Slicks,
Carl Craig,
June of 44,
Joyce Sims,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pharoah Sanders,
the Association,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Modern Lovers,
Charles Mingus,
Television,
Television Personalities,
Pussy Galore,
Sexual Harrassment,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.