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 Mozambique and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 This Heat to the disco 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gories,
Roxy Music,
The Fortunes,
The Evens,
The Searchers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Siglo XX,
Jandek,
a-ha,
Animal Collective,
Make Up,
Chris & Cosey,
Josef K,
Flamin' Groovies,
48th St. Collective,
Big Daddy Kane,
Todd Rundgren,
Pole,
Davy DMX,
Sound Behaviour,
Jacob Miller,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Idris Muhammad,
John Coltrane,
Henry Cow,
Joe Finger,
David McCallum,
Gang of Four,
Ossler,
Franke,
The Music Machine,
Bill Near,
Angry Samoans,
Kool Moe Dee,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eric Copeland,
The Dead C,
Jawbox,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yaz,
Saccharine Trust,
Matthew Bourne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tears for Fears,
Wasted Youth,
Altered Images,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Duran Duran,
Television Personalities,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Neil Young,
Lalo Schifrin,
Crooked Eye,
Hot Snakes,
Nick Fraelich,
The Trojans,
Rakim,
Avey Tare,
Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy.
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.