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 St Lucia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Underground Resistance to the rock 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 The Index. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sällskapet 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?
Idris Muhammad,
Don Cherry,
Scientists,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
EPMD,
Fear,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Throbbing Gristle,
Blancmange,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bang On A Can,
Desert Stars,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eric B and Rakim,
James White and The Blacks,
Arab on Radar,
Nils Olav,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yazoo,
Sixth Finger,
Stockholm Monsters,
Crash Course in Science,
Letta Mbulu,
Eve St. Jones,
Crispy Ambulance,
Toni Rubio,
Laurel Aitken,
Guru Guru,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Piero Umiliani,
Visage,
cv313,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Theoretical Girls,
K-Klass,
Tomorrow,
Echospace,
Mr. Review,
Aswad,
Minny Pops,
June of 44,
Marvin Gaye,
Smog,
Stiv Bators,
Sexual Harrassment,
Robert Hood,
Big Daddy Kane,
Flash Fearless,
Todd Terry,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Black Flag,
Black Pus,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Second Layer,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.