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 Korea South and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Can to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The J.B.'s record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
the Human League,
Motorama,
Accadde A,
Tom Boy,
Quadrant,
Funkadelic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Divine Comedy,
Colin Newman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Easy Going,
Piero Umiliani,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Avey Tare,
MC5,
Jerry's Kids,
Jawbox,
The Mummies,
John Foxx,
James White and The Blacks,
Eric Dolphy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Depeche Mode,
The Grass Roots,
David Axelrod,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
One Last Wish,
Rotary Connection,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Qualms,
Chris Corsano,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nas,
Lightning Bolt,
the Germs,
Electric Prunes,
Zero Boys,
The Fugs,
Cal Tjader,
Camouflage,
Lyres,
Albert Ayler,
Bill Wells,
Gichy Dan,
The Invisible,
Oneida,
Young Marble Giants,
The Walker Brothers,
Ornette Coleman,
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Womack,
Rekid,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Janne Schatter,
FM Einheit,
Sonny Sharrock,
Duran Duran,
Unwound,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.