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 Pakistan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Michael McDonald 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the dance 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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Andrew Hill,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Blossom Toes,
Main Source,
Newcleus,
London Community Gospel Choir,
ABBA,
Sugar Minott,
Sonic Youth,
Yazoo,
Jeru the Damaja,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bush Tetras,
Sonny Sharrock,
Make Up,
Little Man,
The Seeds,
Chris Corsano,
Brick,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Depeche Mode,
Ituana,
Joe Finger,
Wally Richardson,
Stetsasonic,
Darondo,
La Düsseldorf,
Flash Fearless,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
48th St. Collective,
Japan,
The Martian,
Lightning Bolt,
Chrome,
The Remains,
Bobby Byrd,
Fela Kuti,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Roxette,
Thee Headcoats,
Prince Buster,
Junior Murvin,
Gastr Del Sol,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Animal Collective,
Public Image Ltd.,
Donald Byrd,
Negative Approach,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Litter,
Guru Guru,
The Red Krayola,
Steve Hackett,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Country Teasers,
Visage,
Lindisfarne,
Fear,
The Busters,
The Saints,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.