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 Indonesia and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bobby Sherman to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric Dolphy,
Inner City,
Radio Birdman,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Section 25,
kango's stein massive,
Amon Düül II,
Yazoo,
Rod Modell,
June of 44,
Joe Finger,
Rekid,
Ornette Coleman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sex Pistols,
cv313,
Michelle Simonal,
Joey Negro,
Stereo Dub,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Tremeloes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mary Jane Girls,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Absolute Body Control,
This Heat,
Gang Green,
Desert Stars,
The Buckinghams,
John Lydon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lou Christie,
Amazonics,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Busters,
Marvin Gaye,
Whodini,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gabor Szabo,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bobby Byrd,
Alphaville,
A Certain Ratio,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tubeway Army,
Dead Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Durutti Column,
Guru Guru,
Gerry Rafferty,
Animal Collective,
Minutemen,
Duran Duran,
Lightning Bolt,
Infiniti,
The Seeds,
Nas,
The Gun Club,
Cheater Slicks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.