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 Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 Mumbai and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Iggy Pop to the punk 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 The Count Five. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection 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?
Lower 48,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eden Ahbez,
The Black Dice,
Wally Richardson,
The Residents,
Colin Newman,
The Remains,
Ice-T,
Q65,
Bob Dylan,
Mr. Review,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Freddie Wadling,
The New Christs,
Monks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jerry's Kids,
Whodini,
The Tremeloes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Josef K,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marvin Gaye,
Severed Heads,
Popol Vuh,
Bauhaus,
Slick Rick,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eric Copeland,
Second Layer,
Sugar Minott,
Gregory Isaacs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sonic Youth,
The Fall,
The Knickerbockers,
E-Dancer,
Interpol,
Bill Near,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Los Fastidios,
Soft Cell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mark Hollis,
Boz Scaggs,
Lou Christie,
The Young Rascals,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
cv313,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Chris Corsano,
Swell Maps,
The Human League,
UT,
Heaven 17,
The Searchers,
The Electric Prunes,
Crispian St. Peters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
PIL,
Y Pants,
Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance.
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.