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 Finland and from Copenhagen.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mexico City.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Mad Mike to the techno 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Das Ding,
Bootsy Collins,
Bluetip,
Robert Hood,
UT,
Cal Tjader,
Al Stewart,
The Zeros,
The Stooges,
Cecil Taylor,
Soul Sonic Force,
Interpol,
Dual Sessions,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Busters,
The Toasters,
Sun Ra,
Black Flag,
Monolake,
Motorama,
FM Einheit,
Robert Görl,
Carl Craig,
Dead Boys,
The Black Dice,
Anakelly,
Rotary Connection,
Little Man,
Japan,
Blossom Toes,
Todd Terry,
Idris Muhammad,
Mandrill,
The Evens,
Janne Schatter,
Pulsallama,
Eli Mardock,
The Flesh Eaters,
Juan Atkins,
Amon Düül II,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soulsonic Force,
a-ha,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Remains,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tubeway Army,
Subhumans,
Pole,
The Associates,
Eric Dolphy,
Schoolly D,
Sparks,
Joy Division,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Leonard Cohen,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.