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 Kiribati and from Bologna.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Derrick Morgan 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 The Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Easy Going,
Parry Music,
The Dead C,
The Blues Magoos,
The Fire Engines,
The Fuzztones,
Crime,
Cecil Taylor,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Judy Mowatt,
The Electric Prunes,
World's Most,
John Cale,
Man Parrish,
Saccharine Trust,
Technova,
John Holt,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Moody Blues,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Severed Heads,
The Names,
Colin Newman,
E-Dancer,
The Walker Brothers,
Althea and Donna,
Mad Mike,
Mars,
Lou Christie,
The Black Dice,
Dual Sessions,
Don Cherry,
Sällskapet,
Dennis Brown,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
PIL,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Section 25,
The Star Department,
Scion,
Robert Hood,
Aural Exciters,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cal Tjader,
Hoover,
Cybotron,
Dawn Penn,
JFA,
Arthur Verocai,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Glenn Branca,
The Music Machine,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Germs,
Bauhaus,
The Grass Roots,
Jacques Brel,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sonic Youth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.