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 Gabon and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and New York.
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 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 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nico,
Rakim,
Easy Going,
Barry Ungar,
Nils Olav,
Sex Pistols,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scott Walker,
Saccharine Trust,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Traffic Nightmare,
Delon & Dalcan,
Agent Orange,
Brand Nubian,
The Associates,
Second Layer,
The Mojo Men,
Brothers Johnson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
China Crisis,
Robert Görl,
Brass Construction,
Boredoms,
Eden Ahbez,
Tommy Roe,
Althea and Donna,
Underground Resistance,
The Slits,
The Invisible,
Godley & Creme,
Alphaville,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Blues Magoos,
Angry Samoans,
The Red Krayola,
The Slackers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Wolf Eyes,
Black Sheep,
Silicon Teens,
Iggy Pop,
Gil Scott Heron,
Throbbing Gristle,
Danielle Patucci,
Black Bananas,
The Gap Band,
Jandek,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marc Almond,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Divine Comedy,
The Fortunes,
Das Ding,
Hot Snakes,
Essential Logic,
Qualms,
The Flesh Eaters,
Metal Thangz,
Joensuu 1685,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.