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 Korea North and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Grey Daturas to the electroclash 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 John Holt. All the underground hits.
All B.T. Express tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Marine Girls,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rosa Yemen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Sound,
Laurel Aitken,
Pagans,
ABBA,
Supertramp,
Stetsasonic,
Freddie Wadling,
Drive Like Jehu,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Can,
Unrelated Segments,
Bob Dylan,
The Moleskins,
Television Personalities,
Quadrant,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Anakelly,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rufus Thomas,
Yaz,
Bauhaus,
Thee Headcoats,
kango's stein massive,
Kenny Larkin,
ABC,
KRS-One,
Monks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Suicide,
Henry Cow,
R.M.O.,
Minor Threat,
Eric Dolphy,
Mark Hollis,
Radiopuhelimet,
Peter & Gordon,
New York Dolls,
John Holt,
Das Ding,
Accadde A,
Zapp,
Bang On A Can,
The Dave Clark Five,
Derrick Morgan,
Theoretical Girls,
U.S. Maple,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Public Image Ltd.,
John Foxx,
Easy Going,
Spandau Ballet,
New Age Steppers,
The Invisible,
Kurtis Blow,
Albert Ayler,
Ponytail,
Eli Mardock,
Dark Day,
Robert Wyatt,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.