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 Thailand and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Woodstock.
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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Technova to the techno 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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harpers Bizarre,
Glenn Branca,
MDC,
Soft Cell,
The Moleskins,
Cameo,
Al Stewart,
Dark Day,
Joe Smooth,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
MC5,
Pagans,
Faraquet,
48th St. Collective,
Brick,
Wasted Youth,
Fugazi,
Frankie Knuckles,
John Holt,
Stiv Bators,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pantytec,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fluxion,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bauhaus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Visage,
Maleditus Sound,
Hot Snakes,
Piero Umiliani,
Soulsonic Force,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Skatalites,
Judy Mowatt,
Stetsasonic,
Rotary Connection,
Graham Central Station,
Carl Craig,
Jesper Dahlback,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jerry's Kids,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Buzzcocks,
The Angels of Light,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sarah Menescal,
Bluetip,
Rites of Spring,
FM Einheit,
Amon Düül II,
David Axelrod,
Underground Resistance,
OOIOO,
Avey Tare,
The Beau Brummels,
Minnie Riperton,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Donald Byrd,
Minutemen,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.