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 Cyprus and from Delhi.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Moebius to the grunge 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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Maleditus Sound,
Boogie Down Productions,
Thompson Twins,
Audionom,
the Swans,
Laurel Aitken,
Schoolly D,
The J.B.'s,
The Moleskins,
Chris Corsano,
The Fugs,
Guru Guru,
Sound Behaviour,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Alison Limerick,
Yusef Lateef,
Minny Pops,
Soulsonic Force,
Cameo,
Siglo XX,
Derrick Morgan,
The Raincoats,
Drexciya,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Neon Judgement,
JFA,
Public Image Ltd.,
Robert Hood,
Japan,
Johnny Clarke,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Duran Duran,
Arab on Radar,
Y Pants,
Visage,
Scott Walker,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Moody Blues,
Talk Talk,
Fat Boys,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Reagan Youth,
Fela Kuti,
Gang Green,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Trumans Water,
The Golliwogs,
Nick Fraelich,
Idris Muhammad,
Animal Collective,
Joey Negro,
Danielle Patucci,
X-101,
Cluster,
Procol Harum,
Moby Grape,
Mantronix,
The Buckinghams,
Deepchord,
Aswad,
Black Bananas,
Frankie Knuckles,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.