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 Gabon and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Oblivians to the jazz 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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Nik Kershaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gladiators,
Talk Talk,
Nils Olav,
Rosa Yemen,
Brick,
Fluxion,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Zero Boys,
Gong,
Radiohead,
Amon Düül,
Tomorrow,
The Residents,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Unwound,
Animal Collective,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Searchers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Agitation Free,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ten City,
Neu!,
John Holt,
Roger Hodgson,
Cal Tjader,
X-102,
Glenn Branca,
The Fall,
Excepter,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Dennis Brown,
Eric Copeland,
Yellowson,
Hasil Adkins,
The Names,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sarah Menescal,
Motorama,
The Dead C,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Depeche Mode,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Swans,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Von Mondo,
Tres Demented,
Davy DMX,
Dawn Penn,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Index,
Scientists,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bootsy Collins,
Joe Finger,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.