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 Mozambique and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Youth Brigade to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Alton Ellis,
Mr. Review,
Chris & Cosey,
The Gun Club,
The Wake,
The Index,
MC5,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jacob Miller,
The Red Krayola,
Main Source,
Althea and Donna,
Skriet,
Erykah Badu,
Nick Fraelich,
Ralphi Rosario,
Groovy Waters,
Anthony Braxton,
The Detroit Cobras,
Metal Thangz,
Delta 5,
Outsiders,
Lakeside,
Howard Jones,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Barry Ungar,
UT,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magazine,
Absolute Body Control,
Massinfluence,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eric Dolphy,
Patti Smith,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Busters,
Symarip,
The Evens,
Judy Mowatt,
Altered Images,
Barclay James Harvest,
Leonard Cohen,
Man Eating Sloth,
K-Klass,
Isaac Hayes,
Cymande,
The Cowsills,
Sun Ra,
Rapeman,
Blake Baxter,
The Martian,
Amon Düül,
The Count Five,
Juan Atkins,
Das Ding,
Idris Muhammad,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young,
X-101,
Porter Ricks,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.