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 Paraguay and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe 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 Gang Gang Dance to the rock 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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a guitar 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 guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Dorothy Ashby,
Matthew Halsall,
The Mummies,
The Golliwogs,
Nirvana,
Marine Girls,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Robert Hood,
Chrome,
KRS-One,
Television,
Soft Cell,
Metal Thangz,
Patti Smith,
Black Flag,
Newcleus,
Soulsonic Force,
Procol Harum,
The Grass Roots,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
DJ Style,
The Beau Brummels,
Roy Ayers,
Eric Dolphy,
Toni Rubio,
T. Rex,
Pole,
Unrelated Segments,
Technova,
Traffic Nightmare,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gang Starr,
Throbbing Gristle,
Minutemen,
Anakelly,
Tom Boy,
Kerri Chandler,
DJ Sneak,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Buckinghams,
Scratch Acid,
Dennis Brown,
The Moleskins,
The Standells,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Foxx,
Banda Bassotti,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
These Immortal Souls,
Inner City,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gong,
the Fania All-Stars,
Echospace,
X-102,
Camberwell Now,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.