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 Guyana and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Massinfluence to the rap 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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harpers Bizarre,
Dark Day,
Mary Jane Girls,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Nas,
Peter and Kerry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Parry Music,
Leonard Cohen,
Blake Baxter,
Skriet,
The Fortunes,
Maleditus Sound,
The Blues Magoos,
Max Romeo,
Ossler,
Glenn Branca,
Cheater Slicks,
New York Dolls,
kango's stein massive,
Depeche Mode,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Faust,
B.T. Express,
Nick Fraelich,
Neu!,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Smoke,
Ken Boothe,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Motorama,
Yaz,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gong,
Kurtis Blow,
The Gap Band,
ABBA,
Carl Craig,
Darondo,
Rotary Connection,
The Fall,
the Slits,
Anthony Braxton,
Average White Band,
Gang of Four,
Thee Headcoats,
the Soft Cell,
Wings,
Stetsasonic,
Outsiders,
Monolake,
cv313,
Whodini,
The Sound,
Grandmaster Flash,
Japan,
The Pop Group,
10cc,
Hoover,
The Sisters of Mercy,
the Sonics,
FM Einheit,
Donald Byrd,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.