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 Eritrea and from Manila.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bizarre Inc. to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
Television,
Flash Fearless,
Gang Green,
Parry Music,
Fear,
The Birthday Party,
the Sonics,
Bobby Sherman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Throbbing Gristle,
New York Dolls,
The Grass Roots,
Ituana,
Grey Daturas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Intrusion,
Mission of Burma,
The United States of America,
Donald Byrd,
Juan Atkins,
Vainqueur,
Gil Scott Heron,
Chrome,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Sheep,
Jeff Lynne,
Scratch Acid,
The Searchers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Television Personalities,
Dead Boys,
Organ,
The Fortunes,
Rekid,
Wasted Youth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Main Source,
Andrew Hill,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
David McCallum,
Funky Four + One,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Godley & Creme,
Average White Band,
Peter and Kerry,
The Smiths,
In Retrospect,
Pantaleimon,
Michelle Simonal,
Glenn Branca,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kevin Saunderson,
World's Most,
Connie Case,
Can,
Joy Division,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thompson Twins,
Los Fastidios,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.