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 Thailand and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lille.
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 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 Dead Boys to the disco 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Das Ding 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Black Dice record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Trumans Water,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sex Pistols,
Josef K,
Michelle Simonal,
Organ,
Audionom,
Eve St. Jones,
Little Man,
Funkadelic,
The Mojo Men,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
the Normal,
Zero Boys,
Susan Cadogan,
Joey Negro,
Jerry's Kids,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Pus,
Soft Machine,
Scott Walker,
Lindisfarne,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The American Breed,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Mandrill,
Soft Cell,
Faust,
H. Thieme,
Schoolly D,
The Five Americans,
Cecil Taylor,
The Invisible,
Siglo XX,
New Order,
Soul II Soul,
The Beau Brummels,
Animal Collective,
Sexual Harrassment,
Au Pairs,
The Evens,
Ronan,
Todd Rundgren,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Interpol,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Cure,
Bluetip,
The Misunderstood,
The New Christs,
Chrome,
Roy Ayers,
Spoonie Gee,
Peter and Kerry,
Yazoo,
The Standells,
Fat Boys,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Anthony Braxton,
Iggy Pop,
Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas.
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.