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 Bahamas and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Electric Prunes 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every U.S. Maple 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
La Düsseldorf,
Arcadia,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gang Green,
Hasil Adkins,
The Dead C,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pharoah Sanders,
Au Pairs,
The Five Americans,
Soul II Soul,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cameo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Pretty Things,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
X-102,
Altered Images,
The Golliwogs,
Dennis Brown,
Carl Craig,
Ludus,
Stetsasonic,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Toasters,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sällskapet,
Main Source,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Pop Group,
Neil Young,
Gichy Dan,
The Gap Band,
The Residents,
Freddie Wadling,
Curtis Mayfield,
Adolescents,
Yellowson,
Marine Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Alice Coltrane,
Piero Umiliani,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The United States of America,
The Slackers,
Bobby Sherman,
Dark Day,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Fear,
Little Man,
Motorama,
Supertramp,
Sex Pistols,
the Swans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bauhaus,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.