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 Chad and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Buckinghams,
Skriet,
Fela Kuti,
Eric Dolphy,
Desert Stars,
Yellowson,
Smog,
Q65,
Ossler,
Half Japanese,
The Techniques,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hoover,
Harmonia,
Bootsy Collins,
48th St. Collective,
Isaac Hayes,
Gong,
Chris & Cosey,
Icehouse,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultra Naté,
Stetsasonic,
Jawbox,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Spoonie Gee,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Finger,
Eli Mardock,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ituana,
Ludus,
Robert Hood,
Warsaw,
Hardrive,
Glenn Branca,
Toni Rubio,
Fad Gadget,
Deakin,
Flamin' Groovies,
Curtis Mayfield,
Little Man,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Zero Boys,
The Moleskins,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Gap Band,
Agent Orange,
Gregory Isaacs,
MDC,
The Sound,
The Toasters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
These Immortal Souls,
Jandek,
Khruangbin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sam Rivers,
The Trojans,
The Beau Brummels,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
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.