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 Sierra Leone and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Tomorrow to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Faust 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 grunge 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 an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Youth Brigade,
L. Decosne,
Guru Guru,
New York Dolls,
Funky Four + One,
Suburban Knight,
Eric B and Rakim,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
the Human League,
Soulsonic Force,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Todd Rundgren,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Zeros,
Man Eating Sloth,
Wire,
the Germs,
Grey Daturas,
The Dirtbombs,
H. Thieme,
Oblivians,
Porter Ricks,
Alton Ellis,
Mary Jane Girls,
Alphaville,
Camouflage,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Derrick May,
The Fuzztones,
Delon & Dalcan,
Archie Shepp,
Peter & Gordon,
The Slits,
New Age Steppers,
Banda Bassotti,
Moby Grape,
Tres Demented,
Inner City,
Agitation Free,
Bobby Womack,
R.M.O.,
World's Most,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sparks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jimmy McGriff,
La Düsseldorf,
Dark Day,
Ultra Naté,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Blackbyrds,
Infiniti,
Davy DMX,
The New Christs,
Hardrive,
Moebius,
The Young Rascals,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.