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 Malaysia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Joyce Sims to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Charles Mingus,
Eric Dolphy,
Chris & Cosey,
Pharoah Sanders,
New Age Steppers,
Make Up,
Alison Limerick,
Fugazi,
The Shadows of Knight,
Reuben Wilson,
One Last Wish,
the Germs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ultra Naté,
Stetsasonic,
Ornette Coleman,
The Litter,
Kerri Chandler,
Yaz,
kango's stein massive,
Q and Not U,
Dave Gahan,
Parry Music,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rod Modell,
The Standells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mr. Review,
Pantaleimon,
Yellowson,
Television Personalities,
China Crisis,
The Offenders,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dual Sessions,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Oneida,
Tomorrow,
Neil Young,
the Bar-Kays,
Skriet,
Mars,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Fall,
Intrusion,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Piero Umiliani,
The Last Poets,
Flamin' Groovies,
Young Marble Giants,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Smiths,
Thompson Twins,
The Vogues,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Donald Byrd,
B.T. Express,
Scott Walker,
Unwound, Unwound, Unwound, Unwound.
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.