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 Peru and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Sixth Finger 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Anthony Braxton,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Skatalites,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pole,
DJ Sneak,
Excepter,
Fugazi,
David Bowie,
Minutemen,
The Standells,
Tres Demented,
MDC,
Bronski Beat,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Patti Smith,
Public Enemy,
Dual Sessions,
Porter Ricks,
Sister Nancy,
Steve Hackett,
Barrington Levy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Young Marble Giants,
Amon Düül II,
Banda Bassotti,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Barbara Tucker,
Colin Newman,
Lakeside,
Yellowson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Archie Shepp,
Scott Walker,
Mo-Dettes,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ronan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Electric Prunes,
Mission of Burma,
Robert Görl,
Tommy Roe,
Franke,
Technova,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Zapp,
Moebius,
Wire,
Flamin' Groovies,
Marine Girls,
The American Breed,
48th St. Collective,
Circle Jerks,
Mark Hollis,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rites of Spring,
Shuggie Otis,
Fluxion,
Lee Hazlewood,
Desert Stars,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.