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 Nicaragua and from Lyon.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Detroit Cobras to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bootsy Collins,
Piero Umiliani,
The Moleskins,
Jeff Lynne,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The United States of America,
Danielle Patucci,
Minor Threat,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Fugs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Agitation Free,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rhythm & Sound,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
KRS-One,
Public Enemy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
China Crisis,
The Monochrome Set,
Peter and Kerry,
Lightning Bolt,
The Trojans,
Cameo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Soft Cell,
The Barracudas,
cv313,
DNA,
The Fortunes,
The Golliwogs,
The Gladiators,
Pussy Galore,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pantytec,
Drive Like Jehu,
Funky Four + One,
The Durutti Column,
Gregory Isaacs,
Amon Düül II,
Curtis Mayfield,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Joe Finger,
Carl Craig,
Jawbox,
Max Romeo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Grey Daturas,
Fatback Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Mantronix,
Tim Buckley,
Chrome,
The Pretty Things,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lower 48,
Fad Gadget,
AZ,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.
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.