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 Macedonia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Copenhagen.
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 rhodes 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 Swell Maps to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sexual Harrassment,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Fluxion,
The Count Five,
Sun City Girls,
Icehouse,
Vainqueur,
the Swans,
Gang Gang Dance,
Patti Smith,
Flash Fearless,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Smog,
Joe Finger,
Sugar Minott,
Blake Baxter,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Flamin' Groovies,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dorothy Ashby,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Smiths,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Panda Bear,
Lungfish,
David Bowie,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Archie Shepp,
Public Enemy,
the Normal,
Mantronix,
Hot Snakes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Absolute Body Control,
Basic Channel,
U.S. Maple,
Inner City,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Soul II Soul,
Model 500,
Livin' Joy,
Althea and Donna,
L. Decosne,
Average White Band,
Pierre Henry,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eric Copeland,
Dual Sessions,
Agent Orange,
The Offenders,
These Immortal Souls,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pantaleimon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Scion,
The Busters,
The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings.
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.