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 Italy and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Michael McDonald 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 Silicon Teens to the disco 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Laurel Aitken,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Guru Guru,
The Zeros,
The Grass Roots,
John Foxx,
Subhumans,
Sexual Harrassment,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eddi Front,
The Last Poets,
Albert Ayler,
The Fuzztones,
Bobby Byrd,
Newcleus,
The Cowsills,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dead Boys,
Parry Music,
Sight & Sound,
kango's stein massive,
Hot Snakes,
The Seeds,
Intrusion,
Suicide,
Swell Maps,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jandek,
Scion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Vladislav Delay,
Lou Reed,
Graham Central Station,
Vainqueur,
the Association,
Con Funk Shun,
Sister Nancy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Massinfluence,
Babytalk,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sixth Finger,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Little Man,
The Barracudas,
Bluetip,
The Names,
Model 500,
The Gap Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
DJ Style,
Lungfish,
Oneida,
Nirvana,
The Misunderstood,
Rosa Yemen,
Yaz,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.