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 Spain and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Joyce Sims to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Echospace,
The Offenders,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
X-102,
Rosa Yemen,
Massinfluence,
EPMD,
In Retrospect,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Zeros,
Drive Like Jehu,
Black Flag,
Cecil Taylor,
Blake Baxter,
Albert Ayler,
Avey Tare,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Howard Jones,
Arab on Radar,
CMW,
Judy Mowatt,
The Blackbyrds,
Bronski Beat,
Oblivians,
Jesper Dahlback,
Warsaw,
Pagans,
Shuggie Otis,
Accadde A,
Man Parrish,
Pantytec,
Barrington Levy,
Nick Fraelich,
PIL,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Y Pants,
Sällskapet,
Joy Division,
Dead Boys,
Average White Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dorothy Ashby,
Inner City,
the Normal,
Todd Terry,
The Gladiators,
Sister Nancy,
The Beau Brummels,
Anakelly,
Eric Dolphy,
Marc Almond,
The Modern Lovers,
Fat Boys,
Pharoah Sanders,
Soft Machine,
Lindisfarne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Delta 5,
A Certain Ratio,
Godley & Creme,
Stockholm Monsters,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.