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 Syria and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 sitar 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 Ronnie Foster to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Derrick Morgan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Fugs,
Silicon Teens,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Alton Ellis,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Last Poets,
Heaven 17,
Schoolly D,
Peter and Kerry,
The Monochrome Set,
The Gories,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brand Nubian,
Absolute Body Control,
Mission of Burma,
Glenn Branca,
Ludus,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Marine Girls,
JFA,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Easy Going,
Davy DMX,
Magma,
Agent Orange,
New Age Steppers,
Fugazi,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Zeros,
The Happenings,
cv313,
China Crisis,
10cc,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
UT,
Hot Snakes,
Sugar Minott,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Andrew Hill,
The Motions,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Zero Boys,
Eden Ahbez,
Lalann,
The Kinks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Frankie Knuckles,
Roy Ayers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Audionom,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
48th St. Collective,
Stereo Dub,
Pagans,
The Pop Group,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Popol Vuh,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.