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 Equatorial Guinea and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Panda Bear to the jazz 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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Skatalites,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Blossom Toes,
Erykah Badu,
Sällskapet,
Can,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dave Gahan,
MDC,
Rod Modell,
Ultimate Spinach,
Arcadia,
Todd Terry,
Moss Icon,
Max Romeo,
Sugar Minott,
Glenn Branca,
Slave,
The Blackbyrds,
Neu!,
Susan Cadogan,
The Gun Club,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Minutemen,
The Electric Prunes,
EPMD,
Parry Music,
Pere Ubu,
Crispy Ambulance,
Nik Kershaw,
Dawn Penn,
Steve Hackett,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Althea and Donna,
Quadrant,
The Zeros,
Niagra,
Whodini,
The Neon Judgement,
Josef K,
KRS-One,
Lou Reed,
Jawbox,
Underground Resistance,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Grey Daturas,
Soul II Soul,
Big Daddy Kane,
kango's stein massive,
Y Pants,
Graham Central Station,
Black Moon,
Janne Schatter,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Velvet Underground,
The Real Kids,
Brick,
Rosa Yemen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.