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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Tokyo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes 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 Soulsonic Force to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ken Boothe,
The Wake,
Jeff Mills,
Erasure,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Groovy Waters,
The Kinks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pussy Galore,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Zapp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Remains,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marshall Jefferson,
Funkadelic,
The Zeros,
Peter & Gordon,
Robert Hood,
cv313,
Massinfluence,
Peter and Kerry,
The Monochrome Set,
Oblivians,
The Slackers,
Funky Four + One,
Swans,
Babytalk,
Tres Demented,
F. McDonald,
Sällskapet,
Desert Stars,
The Cramps,
Porter Ricks,
Gabor Szabo,
Fela Kuti,
The Raincoats,
The Velvet Underground,
La Düsseldorf,
Gichy Dan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gang Gang Dance,
Andrew Hill,
Radio Birdman,
The Gap Band,
Quadrant,
AZ,
Schoolly D,
Warren Ellis,
Avey Tare,
Joey Negro,
Ponytail,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Selecter,
The Victims,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pulsallama,
Cecil Taylor,
Magma,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.