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 Burundi and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 snare 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 Animal Collective to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Depeche Mode record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Howard Jones,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jawbox,
Rekid,
Tommy Roe,
K-Klass,
Black Moon,
Maurizio,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Procol Harum,
Bill Near,
the Slits,
Spoonie Gee,
Funkadelic,
AZ,
Depeche Mode,
The Cramps,
Tomorrow,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Last Poets,
Moebius,
KRS-One,
Circle Jerks,
Crispy Ambulance,
Scott Walker,
Porter Ricks,
Amon Düül,
Rotary Connection,
Robert Wyatt,
Half Japanese,
Negative Approach,
Agent Orange,
Soul II Soul,
The Moody Blues,
Average White Band,
Television,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fugazi,
Quadrant,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Residents,
Henry Cow,
In Retrospect,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Patti Smith,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fela Kuti,
Symarip,
Freddie Wadling,
Warsaw,
Pagans,
The Real Kids,
Ultimate Spinach,
Moss Icon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ituana,
Brothers Johnson,
Zapp,
Sällskapet,
Faust,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.