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 Denmark and from Copenhagen.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pole to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
The Martian,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Masters at Work,
The Cowsills,
Man Parrish,
Joey Negro,
Maurizio,
The Five Americans,
F. McDonald,
Dual Sessions,
Surgeon,
Sandy B,
Jerry's Kids,
Tres Demented,
Rod Modell,
The Vogues,
Country Teasers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Intrusion,
CMW,
The Residents,
L. Decosne,
Reagan Youth,
The Standells,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Delta 5,
Animal Collective,
Godley & Creme,
The Searchers,
Chris Corsano,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Techniques,
Dave Gahan,
The Red Krayola,
The Real Kids,
The Young Rascals,
The Fugs,
Drexciya,
Procol Harum,
Patti Smith,
Whodini,
the Human League,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Newcleus,
Joensuu 1685,
Con Funk Shun,
Soft Machine,
Royal Trux,
DJ Style,
Marine Girls,
Eden Ahbez,
Todd Rundgren,
Soul Sonic Force,
Minor Threat,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Move,
The Litter,
Los Fastidios,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.