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 Guyana and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 sitar 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 Echospace to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Dead Boys,
Agent Orange,
The American Breed,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
UT,
Sight & Sound,
Niagra,
Bauhaus,
K-Klass,
The Cowsills,
The Index,
Curtis Mayfield,
Buzzcocks,
ABBA,
Pulsallama,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
John Foxx,
The Birthday Party,
Electric Prunes,
Hasil Adkins,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Patti Smith,
DJ Style,
Man Parrish,
Ornette Coleman,
Simply Red,
Pantytec,
Marvin Gaye,
The Doors,
Jacob Miller,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Johnny Clarke,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Yusef Lateef,
The Black Dice,
the Soft Cell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Loose Ends,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lungfish,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mary Jane Girls,
Wally Richardson,
Lucky Dragons,
Ossler,
Kaleidoscope,
the Bar-Kays,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Isaac Hayes,
Second Layer,
The Shadows of Knight,
Minny Pops,
Sarah Menescal,
Roxy Music,
Lightning Bolt,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.