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 Comoros and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Portland.
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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Unrelated Segments to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Joe Finger,
The Knickerbockers,
Agitation Free,
Pussy Galore,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Das Ding,
James White and The Blacks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Make Up,
The Birthday Party,
Sly & The Family Stone,
John Coltrane,
Hashim,
Brand Nubian,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Silicon Teens,
The Pop Group,
Faust,
The Dirtbombs,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Warsaw,
Altered Images,
A Certain Ratio,
The Angels of Light,
Patti Smith,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Guru Guru,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Youth Brigade,
The Moody Blues,
The Young Rascals,
The Seeds,
Iggy Pop,
The Martian,
Organ,
The Standells,
Urselle,
Gichy Dan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Animal Collective,
The Last Poets,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hasil Adkins,
La Düsseldorf,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fela Kuti,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Judy Mowatt,
Supertramp,
Girls At Our Best!,
Robert Hood,
Flash Fearless,
The Neon Judgement,
Blancmange,
Japan,
Cymande,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
Todd Rundgren,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.