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 Ireland and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Siglo XX to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eurythmics,
Delta 5,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Minutemen,
Camberwell Now,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minor Threat,
Simply Red,
Nick Fraelich,
The Blackbyrds,
Lou Reed,
Quantec,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
MDC,
Tomorrow,
Lalann,
Franke,
Gastr Del Sol,
Todd Rundgren,
X-Ray Spex,
Archie Shepp,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donny Hathaway,
Mr. Review,
Spandau Ballet,
John Cale,
Livin' Joy,
Alton Ellis,
Mission of Burma,
Masters at Work,
Soul II Soul,
Lindisfarne,
Animal Collective,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Zero Boys,
Mark Hollis,
Amon Düül II,
Average White Band,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
F. McDonald,
Warren Ellis,
Yellowson,
Bauhaus,
Nation of Ulysses,
Trumans Water,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pantaleimon,
Thee Headcoats,
Roger Hodgson,
Kaleidoscope,
Delon & Dalcan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Arab on Radar,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Barbara Tucker,
Joe Finger,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Brand Nubian,
Von Mondo,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.