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 Montenegro and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the güiro 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 Fugs to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Kool Moe Dee,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Reed,
Ultravox,
Magma,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Groovy Waters,
Juan Atkins,
Stetsasonic,
Soul II Soul,
Hashim,
Kas Product,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Symarip,
Von Mondo,
Anthony Braxton,
Chrome,
Avey Tare,
Todd Terry,
The Pretty Things,
Roy Ayers,
Deepchord,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jeff Mills,
Gregory Isaacs,
A Flock of Seagulls,
UT,
The Invisible,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kurtis Blow,
Mantronix,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alison Limerick,
L. Decosne,
The Cramps,
Eddi Front,
Sun City Girls,
U.S. Maple,
Amon Düül,
Derrick Morgan,
Excepter,
Scott Walker,
Toni Rubio,
Liliput,
the Human League,
Basic Channel,
Junior Murvin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ultra Naté,
World's Most,
PIL,
Accadde A,
Half Japanese,
cv313,
X-Ray Spex,
the Soft Cell,
Pole,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.