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 China and from Accra.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the techno 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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every London Community Gospel Choir record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Moby Grape,
Youth Brigade,
Idris Muhammad,
10cc,
Minutemen,
The Fire Engines,
The Skatalites,
Intrusion,
Newcleus,
Audionom,
Sugar Minott,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Shoche,
The Blackbyrds,
Faust,
Lyres,
Symarip,
Jeff Lynne,
Chrome,
Stiv Bators,
Lebanon Hanover,
Brick,
Ten City,
the Human League,
Basic Channel,
Smog,
Metal Thangz,
Anthony Braxton,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Aswad,
Rosa Yemen,
Zapp,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sound Behaviour,
Man Parrish,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Buzzcocks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Saccharine Trust,
Glambeats Corp.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cluster,
The Buckinghams,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The American Breed,
U.S. Maple,
Neil Young,
Delta 5,
John Foxx,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jeff Mills,
The Residents,
Cheater Slicks,
Flamin' Groovies,
Amon Düül,
Ludus,
Pole,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.