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 Barbados 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Motions to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Janne Schatter,
Circle Jerks,
Lindisfarne,
Michelle Simonal,
Basic Channel,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Black Sheep,
Patti Smith,
Kenny Larkin,
Roxy Music,
Royal Trux,
Arcadia,
Crime,
The Monks,
Tubeway Army,
Bush Tetras,
Nik Kershaw,
The Skatalites,
Rapeman,
Roger Hodgson,
The Knickerbockers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Johnny Clarke,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Residents,
The Stooges,
Danielle Patucci,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Erykah Badu,
Iggy Pop,
the Normal,
The Real Kids,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sparks,
The Velvet Underground,
Eurythmics,
Technova,
Con Funk Shun,
The Slits,
Fluxion,
Main Source,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Invisible,
The Fuzztones,
Boz Scaggs,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Martian,
Susan Cadogan,
The Victims,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kas Product,
The Leaves,
Isaac Hayes,
Joyce Sims,
One Last Wish,
PIL,
Chris Corsano,
Unwound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.