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 United Kingdom and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pylon to the crunk 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 The Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hoover,
The Durutti Column,
Susan Cadogan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Janne Schatter,
Stetsasonic,
kango's stein massive,
Sonic Youth,
Anakelly,
Letta Mbulu,
Joey Negro,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Standells,
Roxy Music,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
David McCallum,
Little Man,
Altered Images,
Arab on Radar,
Neil Young,
Minnie Riperton,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wire,
Zapp,
Nik Kershaw,
Althea and Donna,
The Angels of Light,
Frankie Knuckles,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eden Ahbez,
Kurtis Blow,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Robert Görl,
B.T. Express,
Jeff Mills,
Dual Sessions,
Piero Umiliani,
Thompson Twins,
The Real Kids,
Main Source,
Pharoah Sanders,
Zero Boys,
Can,
R.M.O.,
Eric Dolphy,
Lungfish,
Silicon Teens,
Black Sheep,
The Dirtbombs,
8 Eyed Spy,
Maleditus Sound,
H. Thieme,
Chris & Cosey,
Minutemen,
Rakim,
Symarip,
The Fall,
The Monks,
Cymande,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Sonics,
Darondo,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.