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 Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Masters at Work to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
The Monks,
Stetsasonic,
Second Layer,
Soul II Soul,
Hardrive,
The Victims,
Ultravox,
Bobby Womack,
The Neon Judgement,
Roxy Music,
Television,
Jandek,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Sight & Sound,
Babytalk,
Tom Boy,
Monolake,
the Association,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joy Division,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bill Wells,
Q65,
Au Pairs,
David Bowie,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Agitation Free,
Grandmaster Flash,
Joyce Sims,
Vladislav Delay,
DJ Sneak,
Todd Rundgren,
The Gladiators,
Arthur Verocai,
The New Christs,
Sparks,
MC5,
Skaos,
Pulsallama,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Essential Logic,
Jeff Mills,
The Move,
Accadde A,
Make Up,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
D'Angelo,
Gang Green,
Funkadelic,
ABBA,
Robert Wyatt,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cybotron,
JFA,
Harpers Bizarre,
Boogie Down Productions,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Icehouse,
Supertramp,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.