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 Tonga and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Negative Approach to the rap 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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Brass Construction,
Graham Central Station,
Rotary Connection,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sex Pistols,
Sandy B,
B.T. Express,
Curtis Mayfield,
Black Flag,
the Normal,
Mad Mike,
The Stooges,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Young Rascals,
Quando Quango,
F. McDonald,
Freddie Wadling,
The Five Americans,
Pylon,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Underground Resistance,
Ossler,
Delon & Dalcan,
Marcia Griffiths,
Qualms,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Lydon,
Ken Boothe,
Skarface,
Unrelated Segments,
Anthony Braxton,
Scan 7,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sarah Menescal,
Crispian St. Peters,
Godley & Creme,
Pierre Henry,
Young Marble Giants,
Judy Mowatt,
DJ Style,
The Associates,
Archie Shepp,
New York Dolls,
Whodini,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lalo Schifrin,
MC5,
The Star Department,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Morten Harket,
Radiohead,
Alphaville,
Liliput,
EPMD,
Chrome,
Sonic Youth,
The J.B.'s,
The Wake,
Bronski Beat,
The Zeros,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.