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 Namibia and from Mexico City.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 This Heat to the electroclash 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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Electric Prunes,
Wings,
Chris Corsano,
Hardrive,
Davy DMX,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Beau Brummels,
Jacob Miller,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sun City Girls,
John Cale,
Eve St. Jones,
B.T. Express,
Bobby Sherman,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Siglo XX,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Crash Course in Science,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Henry Cow,
Adolescents,
The Stooges,
Graham Central Station,
Franke,
Ten City,
Sixth Finger,
MC5,
Japan,
Connie Case,
Magma,
Parry Music,
The Invisible,
Trumans Water,
The Birthday Party,
Ken Boothe,
Kenny Larkin,
Outsiders,
Toni Rubio,
Neu!,
Faraquet,
Grauzone,
The Smoke,
Jeff Mills,
Bush Tetras,
Man Eating Sloth,
Warren Ellis,
Boz Scaggs,
Newcleus,
U.S. Maple,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Raincoats,
The Red Krayola,
Joe Smooth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Harmonia,
Bill Near,
Traffic Nightmare,
Excepter,
Masters at Work,
In Retrospect,
New Order,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.