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 Denmark and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tokyo.
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 snare 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 Nick Fraelich to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Ornette Coleman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Archie Shepp,
Wasted Youth,
Shuggie Otis,
Ten City,
MDC,
Peter & Gordon,
The Zeros,
Siglo XX,
Isaac Hayes,
The Gap Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Accadde A,
Cecil Taylor,
Glenn Branca,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Juan Atkins,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bobby Byrd,
Boz Scaggs,
Amazonics,
Kaleidoscope,
The Dave Clark Five,
Zapp,
Aloha Tigers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Grass Roots,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Wally Richardson,
The Monochrome Set,
The Real Kids,
It's A Beautiful Day,
DNA,
Joyce Sims,
Q and Not U,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Soul Sonic Force,
Matthew Bourne,
Kerrie Biddell,
Letta Mbulu,
Faraquet,
Gastr Del Sol,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Flag,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tomorrow,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bill Wells,
The Gladiators,
Surgeon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sparks,
The Standells,
Warsaw,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.