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 Laos and from Woodstock.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the crunk 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispian St. Peters,
the Association,
John Coltrane,
The Invisible,
T.S.O.L.,
Hoover,
The Zeros,
The Moody Blues,
Radiohead,
the Normal,
Schoolly D,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Stiv Bators,
Underground Resistance,
Organ,
Steve Hackett,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Black Sheep,
Camouflage,
Neu!,
Dead Boys,
The Misunderstood,
X-101,
Moebius,
The Gun Club,
Agent Orange,
Susan Cadogan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Last Poets,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
ABC,
Iggy Pop,
DNA,
Jacob Miller,
A Certain Ratio,
Arcadia,
Moss Icon,
Alice Coltrane,
Joensuu 1685,
The Velvet Underground,
June of 44,
The Blues Magoos,
The Buckinghams,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ultra Naté,
Deakin,
Byron Stingily,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Martian,
Skriet,
Can,
Matthew Halsall,
The Neon Judgement,
The Knickerbockers,
Brand Nubian,
The Sonics,
Robert Hood,
Model 500,
Black Moon,
Yaz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.