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 Equatorial Guinea and from Houston.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Pylon to the grime 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang on a Can All-Stars 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
The Saints,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Monochrome Set,
Subhumans,
Kerri Chandler,
Con Funk Shun,
Sparks,
Crime,
The Fall,
DJ Sneak,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Janne Schatter,
Q and Not U,
Camberwell Now,
Joey Negro,
Rekid,
Nick Fraelich,
Isaac Hayes,
Glenn Branca,
Delon & Dalcan,
Agitation Free,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television Personalities,
Infiniti,
Eurythmics,
OOIOO,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Young Marble Giants,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Cramps,
Kenny Larkin,
The Zeros,
Ultra Naté,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eric Dolphy,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Human League,
X-Ray Spex,
The Happenings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Groovy Waters,
Bluetip,
The American Breed,
Essential Logic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Soul II Soul,
Deadbeat,
Ice-T,
Bobby Womack,
New Age Steppers,
Tears for Fears,
Aural Exciters,
Leonard Cohen,
X-102,
Soulsonic Force,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.