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 Benin and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Dave Gahan to the rock 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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Count Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
The Mojo Men,
Porter Ricks,
Bob Dylan,
Camouflage,
Chris Corsano,
Fugazi,
Faraquet,
Newcleus,
Kayak,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Groovy Waters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tommy Roe,
Wire,
DJ Style,
The Stooges,
X-Ray Spex,
Alphaville,
Brick,
The Young Rascals,
Pussy Galore,
Sonic Youth,
Procol Harum,
a-ha,
Surgeon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gang Starr,
Blossom Toes,
Scott Walker,
Gabor Szabo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Derrick Morgan,
The Smiths,
Dawn Penn,
Organ,
Youth Brigade,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
the Sonics,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Robert Görl,
Freddie Wadling,
Harmonia,
Charles Mingus,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Music Machine,
Radio Birdman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Technova,
Boz Scaggs,
June Days,
Flipper,
Anthony Braxton,
Barbara Tucker,
Terry Callier,
Negative Approach,
Skriet,
Gastr Del Sol,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Red Krayola,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.