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 El Salvador and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 808 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 Sandy B to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Brick,
Radiohead,
The Vogues,
Marine Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sixth Finger,
Idris Muhammad,
Reuben Wilson,
Sonic Youth,
Warsaw,
The Residents,
The Beau Brummels,
The Skatalites,
Saccharine Trust,
Pierre Henry,
Aswad,
Freddie Wadling,
Todd Terry,
The Fortunes,
Bauhaus,
Robert Hood,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tom Boy,
China Crisis,
Quantec,
MDC,
The Pretty Things,
Junior Murvin,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pantytec,
Eric Dolphy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tim Buckley,
DJ Style,
Jimmy McGriff,
D'Angelo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sun Ra,
Wolf Eyes,
Dennis Brown,
Eden Ahbez,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Techniques,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Red Krayola,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Quando Quango,
Ludus,
Tommy Roe,
Barclay James Harvest,
L. Decosne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.