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 Armenia and from Woodstock.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Wire to the punk 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Colin Newman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Aural Exciters,
Stiv Bators,
Yusef Lateef,
Reagan Youth,
Brass Construction,
Quantec,
Mantronix,
Warren Ellis,
Symarip,
The Angels of Light,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lower 48,
PIL,
Infiniti,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Judy Mowatt,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Graham Central Station,
The Slits,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Blues Magoos,
Bobby Womack,
E-Dancer,
Tears for Fears,
The Fire Engines,
The Beau Brummels,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Index,
Crime,
Radio Birdman,
Fad Gadget,
Dual Sessions,
The Velvet Underground,
Chrome,
Nico,
Country Teasers,
The Vogues,
Rekid,
Susan Cadogan,
Au Pairs,
Cal Tjader,
The Barracudas,
Animal Collective,
Roger Hodgson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Arab on Radar,
Metal Thangz,
Eddi Front,
The Evens,
X-102,
Nick Fraelich,
Von Mondo,
The Cowsills,
Patti Smith,
The Pop Group,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Alison Limerick,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.