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 Netherlands and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 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 Gian Franco Pienzio to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The United States of America record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
AZ,
The Birthday Party,
Juan Atkins,
Scion,
Pantaleimon,
John Foxx,
Alphaville,
Yellowson,
Skarface,
These Immortal Souls,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dennis Brown,
Rekid,
Guru Guru,
Ludus,
Unwound,
Gregory Isaacs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jerry's Kids,
Suburban Knight,
Joe Finger,
Siglo XX,
Derrick May,
The Monochrome Set,
Aaron Thompson,
Saccharine Trust,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Amazonics,
Scientists,
The Move,
kango's stein massive,
Eddi Front,
Cybotron,
Avey Tare,
The Kinks,
Das Ding,
The Velvet Underground,
Barrington Levy,
Soft Cell,
Funky Four + One,
Essential Logic,
the Normal,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Buckinghams,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lou Christie,
Yusef Lateef,
Tim Buckley,
The Five Americans,
The Slits,
Harmonia,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Freddie Wadling,
Warren Ellis,
Ohio Players,
Reuben Wilson,
Bobby Womack,
Icehouse,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Slackers,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.