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 Rwanda and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 organ 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Kaleidoscope,
Susan Cadogan,
Robert Hood,
Anakelly,
Harry Pussy,
Das Ding,
Kayak,
Simply Red,
The Fall,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rufus Thomas,
Stetsasonic,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Monolake,
AZ,
The Golliwogs,
the Normal,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Thee Headcoats,
Underground Resistance,
Isaac Hayes,
Pierre Henry,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cameo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric B and Rakim,
The Move,
ABBA,
the Germs,
Ten City,
Siglo XX,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Young Rascals,
The Fugs,
Barclay James Harvest,
FM Einheit,
the Association,
Archie Shepp,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Fortunes,
Aswad,
Bush Tetras,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scion,
Trumans Water,
a-ha,
Dead Boys,
Soul II Soul,
Nas,
Mo-Dettes,
Buzzcocks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rod Modell,
Mars,
The Buckinghams,
Masters at Work,
Jeru the Damaja,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.