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 Venezuela and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
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 mellotron 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 Matthew Halsall to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Negative Approach,
Dead Boys,
Godley & Creme,
Toni Rubio,
Funky Four + One,
Model 500,
Rosa Yemen,
Swans,
John Cale,
World's Most,
Bill Wells,
Flash Fearless,
Black Flag,
Tom Boy,
The Moody Blues,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Underground Resistance,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Chrome,
Terry Callier,
The Trojans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
John Foxx,
The Raincoats,
Yaz,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DJ Style,
Moebius,
The Moleskins,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Freddie Wadling,
The Selecter,
Jimmy McGriff,
Youth Brigade,
The Happenings,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ituana,
The Red Krayola,
The Pretty Things,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Yusef Lateef,
Panda Bear,
Peter and Kerry,
Amon Düül II,
The Gories,
Kerrie Biddell,
Barclay James Harvest,
Quadrant,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Standells,
Eurythmics,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.