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 Czech Republic and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Invisible to the disco 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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Flipper,
Subhumans,
Zero Boys,
Matthew Halsall,
Nation of Ulysses,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Byrd,
The Tremeloes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Velvet Underground,
The Star Department,
Sam Rivers,
Nas,
Newcleus,
Skaos,
Danielle Patucci,
Au Pairs,
Reagan Youth,
Dennis Brown,
Bang On A Can,
Graham Central Station,
Das Ding,
DJ Style,
Soft Cell,
Bobby Sherman,
Excepter,
Nico,
Eric Dolphy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mandrill,
Davy DMX,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marc Almond,
Drexciya,
The Angels of Light,
Cheater Slicks,
Moby Grape,
The Fall,
Vladislav Delay,
Scrapy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fugazi,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Amon Düül II,
Monolake,
Adolescents,
Radio Birdman,
Crash Course in Science,
Porter Ricks,
Slick Rick,
Todd Terry,
Brick,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sun Ra,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jesper Dahlback,
Stereo Dub,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.