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 Togo and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Donald Fagen 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All The Stooges tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aloha Tigers,
Ituana,
Lou Reed,
The Fire Engines,
Franke,
Aaron Thompson,
David Bowie,
Technova,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Clear Light,
Marmalade,
Electric Prunes,
Amon Düül II,
The Electric Prunes,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pagans,
Black Pus,
Underground Resistance,
The Dirtbombs,
Scan 7,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kaleidoscope,
The Busters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Soft Cell,
MDC,
Bluetip,
Todd Rundgren,
The Gories,
Tim Buckley,
Joe Smooth,
Sister Nancy,
Henry Cow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Stooges,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Johnny Clarke,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Gun Club,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sun City Girls,
10cc,
Dennis Brown,
Unrelated Segments,
Scion,
Stiv Bators,
The Fall,
Fela Kuti,
The Fortunes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Buckinghams,
The Last Poets,
Susan Cadogan,
Popol Vuh,
PIL,
Marine Girls,
Kayak,
Model 500,
Sound Behaviour,
Anthony Braxton,
Panda Bear,
T. Rex,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.