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 Taiwan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Todd Rundgren to the crunk 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Bobbi Humphrey,
FM Einheit,
Dawn Penn,
Mo-Dettes,
Von Mondo,
Altered Images,
Gang of Four,
Monolake,
The Evens,
Nas,
The Divine Comedy,
Absolute Body Control,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Skaos,
Flipper,
Peter and Kerry,
The Star Department,
B.T. Express,
EPMD,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Amon Düül II,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roger Hodgson,
UT,
The Pop Group,
Aloha Tigers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ultravox,
Adolescents,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Cure,
Ten City,
Tim Buckley,
Scan 7,
Neil Young,
Second Layer,
JFA,
Jeru the Damaja,
Nirvana,
Stereo Dub,
The Walker Brothers,
Goldenarms,
The Red Krayola,
Ultra Naté,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Qualms,
the Swans,
Ronnie Foster,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Moby Grape,
Bootsy Collins,
The Techniques,
New Order,
Liliput,
Tears for Fears,
Aural Exciters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Faust,
Colin Newman,
Stiv Bators,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.