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 Comoros and from Lagos.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Alison Limerick to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
John Holt,
Massinfluence,
Kevin Saunderson,
Arcadia,
Warren Ellis,
The Golliwogs,
Harmonia,
The Fall,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fela Kuti,
The Fire Engines,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Knickerbockers,
Guru Guru,
Basic Channel,
Sam Rivers,
Bauhaus,
Fatback Band,
Patti Smith,
The Gories,
Peter and Kerry,
Wasted Youth,
Adolescents,
The Seeds,
The Busters,
This Heat,
Underground Resistance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jandek,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
David Bowie,
Section 25,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Newcleus,
Television,
Hoover,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lucky Dragons,
Niagra,
Cluster,
Barrington Levy,
The Sonics,
China Crisis,
Tomorrow,
Soulsonic Force,
Bad Manners,
Sun City Girls,
The Invisible,
Khruangbin,
Bronski Beat,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eric Dolphy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jeff Mills,
Tom Boy,
The Young Rascals,
Negative Approach,
Motorama,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.