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 Korea South and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Accadde A,
Adolescents,
Jawbox,
Electric Light Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sun Ra,
Section 25,
Junior Murvin,
Television,
Archie Shepp,
Lucky Dragons,
The Music Machine,
Camouflage,
Roxy Music,
The Smoke,
Colin Newman,
The Litter,
Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
Ponytail,
Mandrill,
Roger Hodgson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Unrelated Segments,
Pulsallama,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dennis Brown,
Whodini,
La Düsseldorf,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Minny Pops,
Josef K,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Masters at Work,
Animal Collective,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lindisfarne,
The Busters,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ultra Naté,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lungfish,
Yellowson,
H. Thieme,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Monochrome Set,
Maleditus Sound,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eric B and Rakim,
Minor Threat,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jandek,
Charles Mingus,
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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.