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 Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Soft Machine to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Joy Division,
Theoretical Girls,
Icehouse,
Terrestrial Tones,
Davy DMX,
The Star Department,
Leonard Cohen,
Crispian St. Peters,
Nils Olav,
Los Fastidios,
Unwound,
Stereo Dub,
Negative Approach,
Average White Band,
Malaria!,
Ituana,
Ten City,
Supertramp,
DJ Style,
Danielle Patucci,
Hasil Adkins,
Electric Prunes,
Max Romeo,
Con Funk Shun,
Eden Ahbez,
Flipper,
New Age Steppers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Minor Threat,
Camouflage,
The Associates,
Inner City,
Ronan,
The Techniques,
Severed Heads,
Franke,
Bluetip,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Warren Ellis,
Scan 7,
Whodini,
Groovy Waters,
Pere Ubu,
cv313,
Loose Ends,
Fela Kuti,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The New Christs,
The Moody Blues,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
James White and The Blacks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fatback Band,
Crime,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pylon,
Al Stewart,
Erykah Badu,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.