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 Libya and from Hong Kong.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Gang Gang Dance to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
The Pretty Things,
DNA,
The Fortunes,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
New Order,
Sun Ra,
Max Romeo,
Sixth Finger,
Q65,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Flash Fearless,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Saints,
Flipper,
Supertramp,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Cowsills,
The Moleskins,
Harmonia,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joe Smooth,
Wally Richardson,
The Cure,
DJ Style,
New York Dolls,
Guru Guru,
Man Parrish,
Tubeway Army,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Residents,
China Crisis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Leonard Cohen,
Amon Düül II,
Ronnie Foster,
The Offenders,
Ten City,
Fatback Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Johnny Clarke,
Groovy Waters,
Stiv Bators,
The Seeds,
The Velvet Underground,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ponytail,
Crispian St. Peters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nation of Ulysses,
Trumans Water,
Gastr Del Sol,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dennis Brown,
Symarip,
Suburban Knight,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Alphaville,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.