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 Azerbaijan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Joey Negro to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Marc Almond,
Sarah Menescal,
Dennis Brown,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Jeff Mills,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gichy Dan,
Ice-T,
Sixth Finger,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Youth Brigade,
Archie Shepp,
Pussy Galore,
Freddie Wadling,
Cal Tjader,
China Crisis,
Maleditus Sound,
Johnny Osbourne,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
A Certain Ratio,
Flash Fearless,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bauhaus,
The New Christs,
Leonard Cohen,
Fatback Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lalann,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Silicon Teens,
Rakim,
The American Breed,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Traffic Nightmare,
DNA,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Soul II Soul,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Idris Muhammad,
Amon Düül,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rotary Connection,
The Golliwogs,
Gang Starr,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
AZ,
Marmalade,
Drive Like Jehu,
Slick Rick,
Accadde A,
Sam Rivers,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.