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 Mali and from New York.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 synthesizer 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 Roger Hodgson to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rekid,
Panda Bear,
Warren Ellis,
The Motions,
Lucky Dragons,
The Five Americans,
Pylon,
Basic Channel,
The Modern Lovers,
Swell Maps,
DNA,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Deepchord,
Alphaville,
PIL,
The Gladiators,
Sugar Minott,
X-Ray Spex,
Wolf Eyes,
Chris Corsano,
Fela Kuti,
Erykah Badu,
Cecil Taylor,
Porter Ricks,
Tomorrow,
Mars,
The Busters,
Skarface,
In Retrospect,
The Star Department,
Crispian St. Peters,
Hasil Adkins,
Thee Headcoats,
Slave,
James White and The Blacks,
Robert Görl,
Motorama,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Toasters,
FM Einheit,
Zero Boys,
Robert Hood,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kas Product,
Leonard Cohen,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Evens,
The Cure,
Spoonie Gee,
Black Pus,
Quadrant,
Rhythm & Sound,
John Lydon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Section 25,
Minutemen,
Sixth Finger,
X-101,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.