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 Sweden and from Taipei.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Procol Harum to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Echospace,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lindisfarne,
Schoolly D,
Albert Ayler,
The Martian,
The Real Kids,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Move,
Public Enemy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Agitation Free,
Swans,
Sonic Youth,
AZ,
Erykah Badu,
Dead Boys,
Interpol,
Piero Umiliani,
The Happenings,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Unwound,
Mr. Review,
Alton Ellis,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joy Division,
The Invisible,
Reagan Youth,
Tropical Tobacco,
One Last Wish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
June of 44,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
David Bowie,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Mojo Men,
Maurizio,
Goldenarms,
Circle Jerks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Flag,
Minny Pops,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rufus Thomas,
Sex Pistols,
Roger Hodgson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sällskapet,
Clear Light,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roy Ayers,
The Blues Magoos,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.