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 Jamaica and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Brand Nubian to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suburban Knight,
Yazoo,
Technova,
The Stooges,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jeru the Damaja,
Smog,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Wake,
Television,
Reagan Youth,
Malaria!,
Intrusion,
Wire,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cameo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bob Dylan,
The Angels of Light,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sex Pistols,
Robert Wyatt,
Hot Snakes,
Juan Atkins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Brand Nubian,
Ronan,
Ossler,
Jandek,
The Young Rascals,
Pet Shop Boys,
Das Ding,
Pole,
the Bar-Kays,
Gang of Four,
Talk Talk,
Max Romeo,
The Offenders,
Kayak,
Bad Manners,
The Doors,
Main Source,
Roy Ayers,
Big Daddy Kane,
New Order,
The Gladiators,
Soulsonic Force,
James White and The Blacks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Leonard Cohen,
Marc Almond,
Black Sheep,
Ornette Coleman,
Lower 48,
DJ Style,
Robert Hood,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Associates,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Crime,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic 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.