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 Belgium and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Massinfluence to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Chris Corsano. All the underground hits.
All Bill Wells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
The Mojo Men,
Sixth Finger,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Erykah Badu,
Delta 5,
Pole,
Bauhaus,
the Sonics,
Lalo Schifrin,
Hashim,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Amon Düül II,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
OOIOO,
Alton Ellis,
Eric Copeland,
JFA,
Silicon Teens,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Arthur Verocai,
Yusef Lateef,
Groovy Waters,
Althea and Donna,
Grauzone,
Alice Coltrane,
Country Teasers,
Mark Hollis,
Boredoms,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Chrome,
Procol Harum,
Ultravox,
Brand Nubian,
Easy Going,
Barbara Tucker,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jandek,
New Order,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Section 25,
Sonic Youth,
The Five Americans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Minnie Riperton,
Neil Young,
Letta Mbulu,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Residents,
Kayak,
Bill Near,
Suicide,
Public Image Ltd.,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Swans,
The Victims,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alison Limerick,
Basic Channel,
Donny Hathaway,
X-101,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.