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 Mozambique and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Fortunes to the techno 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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Magma,
Brothers Johnson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Fall,
the Human League,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gong,
the Normal,
The Doors,
The Mummies,
Peter and Kerry,
ABBA,
Bizarre Inc.,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rekid,
Sight & Sound,
Robert Wyatt,
The Smoke,
Gichy Dan,
The Dirtbombs,
Q and Not U,
MDC,
Lou Christie,
Avey Tare,
Bang On A Can,
Cameo,
Con Funk Shun,
Amon Düül II,
EPMD,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Niagra,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joey Negro,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Fania All-Stars,
Von Mondo,
Rod Modell,
Oblivians,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eric Dolphy,
Gabor Szabo,
Henry Cow,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joy Division,
World's Most,
Neil Young,
The Star Department,
Patti Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Bush Tetras,
Davy DMX,
Scrapy,
Surgeon,
Stiv Bators,
Spoonie Gee,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.