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 Russia and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the techno 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
The Angels of Light,
Loose Ends,
Roy Ayers,
Mandrill,
Mary Jane Girls,
Minor Threat,
The Sound,
Rakim,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Cale,
Massinfluence,
Freddie Wadling,
The Names,
Harmonia,
The Velvet Underground,
Severed Heads,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
JFA,
Sight & Sound,
Infiniti,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joe Finger,
DNA,
Thee Headcoats,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Crooked Eye,
Sound Behaviour,
U.S. Maple,
PIL,
the Swans,
Subhumans,
Q65,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Scratch Acid,
Ponytail,
Faraquet,
Pantaleimon,
The Golliwogs,
Crime,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Essential Logic,
Drexciya,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Todd Rundgren,
T.S.O.L.,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Colin Newman,
Avey Tare,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dual Sessions,
X-101,
the Normal,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Aloha Tigers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pere Ubu,
World's Most,
Parry Music,
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.