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 Finland and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang on a Can All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
Tomorrow,
Average White Band,
Sam Rivers,
Schoolly D,
Animal Collective,
Anthony Braxton,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lee Hazlewood,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Idris Muhammad,
Slave,
the Association,
Rufus Thomas,
Marc Almond,
Vladislav Delay,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Little Man,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Janne Schatter,
The Dirtbombs,
Fatback Band,
Arcadia,
Franke,
Bronski Beat,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Divine Comedy,
Cymande,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
This Heat,
Lower 48,
The Motions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
48th St. Collective,
The Standells,
CMW,
Section 25,
Thee Headcoats,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bush Tetras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alice Coltrane,
Aaron Thompson,
Godley & Creme,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Flesh Eaters,
H. Thieme,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jesper Dahlback,
Circle Jerks,
The Moody Blues,
The Cowsills,
Derrick Morgan,
Crash Course in Science,
Albert Ayler,
The Five Americans,
Gong,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.