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 United States and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Association to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Juan Atkins,
Swans,
Man Parrish,
Interpol,
Jandek,
Kas Product,
Nick Fraelich,
Supertramp,
Tom Boy,
Slave,
The Fire Engines,
The Fall,
Deepchord,
AZ,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Japan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bush Tetras,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monochrome Set,
Boz Scaggs,
Underground Resistance,
In Retrospect,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Flipper,
Siglo XX,
Stetsasonic,
The Angels of Light,
Negative Approach,
Anthony Braxton,
Goldenarms,
Smog,
The J.B.'s,
The Music Machine,
the Normal,
Quantec,
Arcadia,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Roy Ayers,
The Names,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Monks,
The Motions,
The Pretty Things,
F. McDonald,
Archie Shepp,
The Residents,
The Standells,
These Immortal Souls,
Toni Rubio,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
PIL,
The Offenders,
A Certain Ratio,
Khruangbin,
the Germs,
Chris Corsano,
Bobby Byrd,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.