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 Andorra and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Iggy Pop to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Deakin,
Robert Görl,
MDC,
Al Stewart,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aural Exciters,
Alphaville,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nation of Ulysses,
Drive Like Jehu,
Malaria!,
Leonard Cohen,
China Crisis,
The Toasters,
The Fortunes,
Newcleus,
Nico,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Peter & Gordon,
Isaac Hayes,
Quando Quango,
Wire,
Metal Thangz,
Michelle Simonal,
Gang of Four,
Barrington Levy,
Easy Going,
Rotary Connection,
Accadde A,
Patti Smith,
David Bowie,
Trumans Water,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
K-Klass,
Letta Mbulu,
Television Personalities,
Guru Guru,
Neu!,
Adolescents,
Pole,
Ash Ra Tempel,
X-102,
DJ Sneak,
Idris Muhammad,
Groovy Waters,
The J.B.'s,
The Divine Comedy,
The Gories,
The Gladiators,
The Human League,
Sun Ra,
Pantaleimon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cal Tjader,
Yaz,
In Retrospect,
10cc,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.