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 Bahrain and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lyres to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispy Ambulance,
Model 500,
Hasil Adkins,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gastr Del Sol,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Don Cherry,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Boredoms,
Magma,
Flipper,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kevin Saunderson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Severed Heads,
Qualms,
Eurythmics,
Rites of Spring,
Japan,
Siglo XX,
Maleditus Sound,
Smog,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sight & Sound,
Bad Manners,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Au Pairs,
Soul II Soul,
Robert Wyatt,
Crime,
Susan Cadogan,
Deepchord,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Techniques,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Moleskins,
The Knickerbockers,
Little Man,
The Litter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young,
Hot Snakes,
Adolescents,
Bluetip,
Quadrant,
Ohio Players,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ken Boothe,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Funkadelic,
Nils Olav,
kango's stein massive,
Anakelly,
Michelle Simonal,
Underground Resistance,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.