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 Malta and from London.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Man Parrish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Nils Olav,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sexual Harrassment,
Curtis Mayfield,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cameo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fluxion,
The Evens,
The Techniques,
The J.B.'s,
Eric B and Rakim,
Talk Talk,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kenny Larkin,
Soft Machine,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Monks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
World's Most,
Nation of Ulysses,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cecil Taylor,
LL Cool J,
Infiniti,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Suburban Knight,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Birthday Party,
Swell Maps,
The Invisible,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Robert Görl,
Ken Boothe,
Kurtis Blow,
Bill Wells,
Graham Central Station,
Yellowson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Coltrane,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Peter and Kerry,
Hashim,
Pylon,
David McCallum,
Isaac Hayes,
Glenn Branca,
Crime,
Lou Reed,
Magazine,
H. Thieme,
Roxy Music,
The New Christs,
Amon Düül,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skaos,
Andrew Hill,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.