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 Ethiopia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar 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 Youth Brigade to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wally Richardson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese 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?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Wake,
cv313,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eric Dolphy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Steve Hackett,
The Doobie Brothers,
Derrick May,
Bauhaus,
Vladislav Delay,
Marshall Jefferson,
Marine Girls,
Heaven 17,
F. McDonald,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sonic Youth,
Alison Limerick,
Public Image Ltd.,
MDC,
Maleditus Sound,
Sound Behaviour,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Busters,
Radiohead,
Wally Richardson,
Au Pairs,
Rosa Yemen,
Dual Sessions,
Oblivians,
Lee Hazlewood,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Amazonics,
Anthony Braxton,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Stiv Bators,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Average White Band,
Traffic Nightmare,
Cal Tjader,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Barbara Tucker,
Jeru the Damaja,
Patti Smith,
Harry Pussy,
The Count Five,
Excepter,
Ornette Coleman,
The Selecter,
Soul Sonic Force,
Archie Shepp,
Khruangbin,
In Retrospect,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Model 500,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Germs,
The Dead C,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.