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 Ukraine and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Moebius to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
John Foxx,
Arthur Verocai,
Drexciya,
Chris & Cosey,
Eric Copeland,
The Mummies,
The Gap Band,
Pole,
Thompson Twins,
Lou Reed,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Index,
Second Layer,
The Young Rascals,
the Normal,
Amon Düül,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Mars,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Inner City,
Trumans Water,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Spoonie Gee,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Clear Light,
Freddie Wadling,
Hashim,
The Dirtbombs,
Boredoms,
Bizarre Inc.,
Subhumans,
the Slits,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
10cc,
Quando Quango,
The Smiths,
The Gories,
Boogie Down Productions,
Funkadelic,
Althea and Donna,
Fluxion,
Tubeway Army,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Basic Channel,
Alison Limerick,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Association,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pretty Things,
Jacques Brel,
Moebius,
Connie Case,
Infiniti,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.