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 Italy and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Mandrill to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
10cc,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gong,
Blake Baxter,
The Doobie Brothers,
Niagra,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Liliput,
Hot Snakes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Funky Four + One,
The Vogues,
Ice-T,
Sonic Youth,
Eli Mardock,
Gang Green,
Rod Modell,
Arthur Verocai,
June Days,
New Order,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Black Flag,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Al Stewart,
The J.B.'s,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Alarm Clocks,
Soul II Soul,
Fugazi,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Whodini,
The Mojo Men,
Gabor Szabo,
Carl Craig,
Godley & Creme,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Drive Like Jehu,
Robert Hood,
Section 25,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Fall,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mark Hollis,
The United States of America,
Hardrive,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Divine Comedy,
Dead Boys,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kerri Chandler,
Tropical Tobacco,
Supertramp,
The Gun Club,
Robert Görl,
Charles Mingus,
Scott Walker,
Little Man,
Sam Rivers,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.