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 Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lakeside to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Soul Sonic Force,
The United States of America,
The Young Rascals,
Negative Approach,
Boogie Down Productions,
Inner City,
Popol Vuh,
Anthony Braxton,
Funky Four + One,
Cybotron,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cameo,
Bauhaus,
Zapp,
Joe Finger,
The Detroit Cobras,
Marc Almond,
Basic Channel,
T. Rex,
Supertramp,
Pagans,
Dual Sessions,
Intrusion,
Roger Hodgson,
The Remains,
In Retrospect,
Flipper,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Von Mondo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Marine Girls,
The Slits,
Jandek,
Leonard Cohen,
Glambeats Corp.,
Quantec,
Absolute Body Control,
Sight & Sound,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
UT,
Alphaville,
Trumans Water,
The Black Dice,
Jawbox,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lucky Dragons,
Deakin,
Wally Richardson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Malaria!,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Blossom Toes,
Iggy Pop,
The Red Krayola,
kango's stein massive,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Babytalk,
Lakeside,
The J.B.'s,
La Düsseldorf,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.