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 India and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba 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 Flipper to the rap 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pole record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Television,
Deepchord,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Music Machine,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Amon Düül,
Stetsasonic,
Vainqueur,
Zapp,
Marcia Griffiths,
Accadde A,
Gong,
Niagra,
Model 500,
Kool Moe Dee,
John Holt,
Jeff Lynne,
Peter & Gordon,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Names,
Boredoms,
Bill Wells,
Funky Four + One,
OOIOO,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Josef K,
New Age Steppers,
David McCallum,
Bobby Byrd,
Hardrive,
The United States of America,
JFA,
Crooked Eye,
Joy Division,
X-102,
Maurizio,
Jawbox,
This Heat,
PIL,
The Doors,
Brass Construction,
The Alarm Clocks,
Clear Light,
The Invisible,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Circle Jerks,
Todd Rundgren,
Banda Bassotti,
Glenn Branca,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gang Green,
Rotary Connection,
Marvin Gaye,
Outsiders,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Flipper,
Aaron Thompson,
David Axelrod,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.