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 East Timor and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fugazi to the disco 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 Association. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The New Christs,
Alton Ellis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sonny Sharrock,
Saccharine Trust,
The Buckinghams,
Brass Construction,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lungfish,
Newcleus,
Dual Sessions,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rapeman,
The Leaves,
Judy Mowatt,
The Victims,
CMW,
David Axelrod,
Fatback Band,
Quadrant,
Reagan Youth,
Shuggie Otis,
Basic Channel,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fortunes,
Bobby Byrd,
Moby Grape,
OOIOO,
Monolake,
Ronnie Foster,
Junior Murvin,
Camouflage,
New Age Steppers,
Jeff Mills,
Pulsallama,
Ice-T,
Underground Resistance,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eddi Front,
Harry Pussy,
Minor Threat,
Howard Jones,
Charles Mingus,
Kerri Chandler,
MDC,
The Monochrome Set,
Kas Product,
The Velvet Underground,
Matthew Halsall,
Thompson Twins,
Wasted Youth,
Eden Ahbez,
The Associates,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Grandmaster Flash,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jacob Miller,
The Cramps,
Aloha Tigers,
T. Rex,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.