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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Warren Ellis to the crunk 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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Outsiders,
Letta Mbulu,
The Saints,
The Dave Clark Five,
A Certain Ratio,
Brass Construction,
Drive Like Jehu,
Charles Mingus,
The Real Kids,
Scion,
Visage,
China Crisis,
Eddi Front,
The Divine Comedy,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Dead C,
Organ,
The Sonics,
The Standells,
Tubeway Army,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Agitation Free,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gastr Del Sol,
Thompson Twins,
Aswad,
Dark Day,
Johnny Osbourne,
Marine Girls,
a-ha,
Pulsallama,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Barrington Levy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Erykah Badu,
Gang Starr,
Black Sheep,
Black Bananas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bang On A Can,
Liliput,
Popol Vuh,
the Association,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Connie Case,
MC5,
DJ Sneak,
Das Ding,
Urselle,
New Order,
Schoolly D,
Black Moon,
Isaac Hayes,
Crash Course in Science,
Los Fastidios,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joe Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Techniques,
Radiohead,
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.