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 Albania and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Madrid.
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 harpsichord 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 Ice-T to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
8 Eyed Spy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Siglo XX,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Organ,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sun Ra,
John Cale,
Tres Demented,
Matthew Bourne,
Rites of Spring,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Stooges,
Youth Brigade,
Von Mondo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Golliwogs,
The Neon Judgement,
Black Sheep,
The Residents,
Joe Finger,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Talk Talk,
The Victims,
Sparks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pulsallama,
Panda Bear,
Deadbeat,
Young Marble Giants,
Piero Umiliani,
Oneida,
Drexciya,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fluxion,
Glambeats Corp.,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bobby Sherman,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Laurel Aitken,
Easy Going,
Gil Scott Heron,
Todd Terry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
John Foxx,
The Red Krayola,
Agent Orange,
Curtis Mayfield,
Simply Red,
Dawn Penn,
Max Romeo,
Pere Ubu,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Radiohead,
Ice-T,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Brass Construction,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes.
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.