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 Indonesia 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Quadrant to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Fugazi,
Eurythmics,
Godley & Creme,
The Gories,
Royal Trux,
Thee Headcoats,
Wally Richardson,
The Martian,
Jandek,
Kas Product,
The Dirtbombs,
Spoonie Gee,
Eden Ahbez,
Organ,
Grauzone,
Flipper,
Carl Craig,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Buckinghams,
Kool Moe Dee,
Darondo,
Country Teasers,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fatback Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Negative Approach,
Sound Behaviour,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sixth Finger,
Monolake,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Human League,
48th St. Collective,
The Busters,
Oblivians,
Groovy Waters,
Public Enemy,
Average White Band,
The Gladiators,
Porter Ricks,
Lalo Schifrin,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eli Mardock,
Los Fastidios,
Joe Finger,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
OOIOO,
Basic Channel,
Bill Wells,
Infiniti,
The Index,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Circle Jerks,
Reuben Wilson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Yazoo,
Scratch Acid,
Essential Logic,
Excepter,
Lower 48,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Youth Brigade,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.