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 Egypt and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
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 spring reverb 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 Vainqueur to the rock 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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June of 44,
Rekid,
Gerry Rafferty,
Yaz,
The Monochrome Set,
Sister Nancy,
Accadde A,
Agent Orange,
Brothers Johnson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Roxy Music,
Mr. Review,
Glambeats Corp.,
Robert Wyatt,
Moss Icon,
Sugar Minott,
the Fania All-Stars,
Niagra,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sarah Menescal,
Charles Mingus,
Alton Ellis,
Porter Ricks,
Smog,
Black Flag,
The Red Krayola,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Black Dice,
Joy Division,
Reagan Youth,
Crispian St. Peters,
Nico,
Pantaleimon,
Cybotron,
Jeff Mills,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Echospace,
Scratch Acid,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Electric Prunes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Groovy Waters,
Sam Rivers,
Janne Schatter,
Gang Starr,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gil Scott Heron,
Unwound,
Hoover,
Con Funk Shun,
The Martian,
Altered Images,
10cc,
Negative Approach,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Normal,
Main Source,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.