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 Korea South and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 MC5 to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hoover,
Donny Hathaway,
Rosa Yemen,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rufus Thomas,
Stiv Bators,
Los Fastidios,
Glenn Branca,
Ossler,
Roxy Music,
Easy Going,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Average White Band,
Magma,
Heaven 17,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bang On A Can,
Black Flag,
Laurel Aitken,
Joyce Sims,
Kas Product,
Hasil Adkins,
Guru Guru,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Offenders,
Moss Icon,
Nation of Ulysses,
Minnie Riperton,
K-Klass,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The J.B.'s,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Tremeloes,
Bob Dylan,
Duran Duran,
Deadbeat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Gladiators,
Cymande,
Royal Trux,
Eli Mardock,
The Monks,
Joey Negro,
Drive Like Jehu,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Japan,
Stetsasonic,
Joe Finger,
Panda Bear,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dead Boys,
Janne Schatter,
Livin' Joy,
Moebius,
Matthew Halsall,
Liliput,
Marcia Griffiths,
Procol Harum,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.