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 Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 theremin 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Stereo Dub,
Steve Hackett,
The Neon Judgement,
The Last Poets,
Negative Approach,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sister Nancy,
New Age Steppers,
Camouflage,
the Association,
Alton Ellis,
Anakelly,
Rotary Connection,
Fat Boys,
The Blackbyrds,
Eric Copeland,
Parry Music,
Surgeon,
Lightning Bolt,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dennis Brown,
Aural Exciters,
Flash Fearless,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fatback Band,
Yazoo,
Aswad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Wyatt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Slackers,
Neu!,
David McCallum,
JFA,
Arcadia,
Bauhaus,
Scientists,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bronski Beat,
Interpol,
Bootsy Collins,
Tubeway Army,
The Offenders,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Dead C,
The Smiths,
Franke,
Bad Manners,
Traffic Nightmare,
Avey Tare,
Althea and Donna,
Warsaw,
Archie Shepp,
Lower 48,
Sällskapet,
The Pretty Things,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gong,
Peter & Gordon,
Jerry's Kids,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.