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 Andorra and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Flesh Eaters to the funk 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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
The Invisible,
The Leaves,
Suburban Knight,
Ponytail,
Flipper,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Icehouse,
Lebanon Hanover,
Matthew Bourne,
Jesper Dahlback,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fatback Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jeff Lynne,
Second Layer,
Piero Umiliani,
Dead Boys,
Yellowson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Section 25,
Kayak,
Altered Images,
Dave Gahan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
These Immortal Souls,
La Düsseldorf,
Crash Course in Science,
MC5,
Erasure,
Panda Bear,
Kurtis Blow,
The Smoke,
Davy DMX,
Zero Boys,
Eurythmics,
The Gladiators,
Ornette Coleman,
Peter & Gordon,
Deepchord,
Masters at Work,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Massinfluence,
Erykah Badu,
Morten Harket,
The Remains,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Red Krayola,
the Swans,
Metal Thangz,
Shoche,
Bad Manners,
Patti Smith,
Fad Gadget,
Andrew Hill,
Bobby Womack,
Siglo XX,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.