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 Iraq and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Fuzztones to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Index. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pere Ubu,
Robert Wyatt,
Jeff Lynne,
Sound Behaviour,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kerri Chandler,
Country Teasers,
EPMD,
Donald Byrd,
This Heat,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Toasters,
Eli Mardock,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fugazi,
The Fuzztones,
Icehouse,
Arcadia,
The Selecter,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Kinks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Brick,
Theoretical Girls,
Scan 7,
Danielle Patucci,
Ponytail,
Gang Starr,
Joensuu 1685,
The Golliwogs,
Marc Almond,
Yazoo,
The Seeds,
Bluetip,
Pantaleimon,
Pylon,
Skarface,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Human League,
Agitation Free,
Mandrill,
Wings,
cv313,
The Fugs,
Maurizio,
Gang of Four,
Bang On A Can,
The Gap Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Ice-T,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fela Kuti,
CMW,
The Motions,
In Retrospect,
Ash Ra Tempel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.