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 Russia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum 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 Fear to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Rufus Thomas,
John Holt,
David Axelrod,
Junior Murvin,
Funkadelic,
Saccharine Trust,
The J.B.'s,
Index,
Oblivians,
Lyres,
Hot Snakes,
The Cowsills,
Stiv Bators,
The Victims,
Flash Fearless,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eddi Front,
Excepter,
Fugazi,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Human League,
Byron Stingily,
Kaleidoscope,
Albert Ayler,
Soft Cell,
The Smiths,
Dead Boys,
Banda Bassotti,
Fela Kuti,
The Blackbyrds,
Thompson Twins,
The Monochrome Set,
Toni Rubio,
Gang Starr,
Con Funk Shun,
The Cramps,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Joyce Sims,
Pantaleimon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Girls At Our Best!,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kenny Larkin,
Bill Wells,
Faust,
Half Japanese,
Sugar Minott,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Godley & Creme,
The Mummies,
Smog,
CMW,
Drive Like Jehu,
Moby Grape,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quadrant,
Scrapy,
R.M.O.,
Jawbox,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.