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 Libya and from Accra.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Oneida,
The Smoke,
Black Flag,
Curtis Mayfield,
Chrome,
A Certain Ratio,
Average White Band,
Thompson Twins,
Al Stewart,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Skaos,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Standells,
Eli Mardock,
Barrington Levy,
John Cale,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Selecter,
Mo-Dettes,
Sixth Finger,
Vladislav Delay,
Fugazi,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Offenders,
Warren Ellis,
Ralphi Rosario,
In Retrospect,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Davy DMX,
Main Source,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chris Corsano,
Faust,
Cameo,
Jawbox,
Stiv Bators,
Bobby Byrd,
La Düsseldorf,
Monks,
Jeff Lynne,
B.T. Express,
Eurythmics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Byron Stingily,
Roger Hodgson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Scientists,
Mary Jane Girls,
Infiniti,
Dark Day,
Motorama,
Cymande,
Barry Ungar,
Morten Harket,
Alison Limerick,
The Kinks,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.