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 Kosovo and from Bremen.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 organ 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 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?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Vainqueur,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Swell Maps,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Divine Comedy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marine Girls,
Surgeon,
Das Ding,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Swans,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Derrick May,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Slits,
Vladislav Delay,
New York Dolls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kenny Larkin,
Groovy Waters,
Quando Quango,
Jerry's Kids,
Aaron Thompson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alice Coltrane,
The Pop Group,
Jeff Mills,
Matthew Halsall,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Saints,
Al Stewart,
Minor Threat,
The Music Machine,
The Raincoats,
A Certain Ratio,
The Birthday Party,
Johnny Clarke,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Section 25,
Anakelly,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Cure,
The Fall,
the Bar-Kays,
Fatback Band,
PIL,
Los Fastidios,
Marshall Jefferson,
James White and The Blacks,
Half Japanese,
Wings,
The Evens,
Gang Starr,
The Fuzztones,
Country Teasers,
Black Pus,
Rosa Yemen,
Lucky Dragons,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.