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 Mali and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Qualms to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Accadde A,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sonic Youth,
Deakin,
Urselle,
Marmalade,
The Divine Comedy,
Thompson Twins,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Moleskins,
The Blues Magoos,
Malaria!,
Sixth Finger,
Kurtis Blow,
Rakim,
Con Funk Shun,
The Doors,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Leonard Cohen,
Cluster,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sällskapet,
Little Man,
Tears for Fears,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lakeside,
Negative Approach,
Stetsasonic,
Technova,
Mantronix,
The Skatalites,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Warren Ellis,
Connie Case,
Dead Boys,
Yellowson,
The Velvet Underground,
Letta Mbulu,
Talk Talk,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Max Romeo,
Massinfluence,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Seeds,
Hoover,
Dennis Brown,
The Golliwogs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pagans,
Easy Going,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Skarface,
The Gladiators,
Yazoo,
Cecil Taylor,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.