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 Cuba and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Holger Czukay 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 Black Bananas to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Masters at Work,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Moss Icon,
KRS-One,
Babytalk,
Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Janne Schatter,
Man Eating Sloth,
Joyce Sims,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Q65,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bronski Beat,
Donald Byrd,
Eve St. Jones,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jacob Miller,
Idris Muhammad,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ohio Players,
World's Most,
The Young Rascals,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Move,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Television Personalities,
Dennis Brown,
Godley & Creme,
Anakelly,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
One Last Wish,
Soul II Soul,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Don Cherry,
The Fortunes,
Minor Threat,
Flipper,
Malaria!,
Faraquet,
Sun Ra,
Ten City,
Iggy Pop,
Bluetip,
AZ,
Liliput,
The Slits,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wolf Eyes,
The Gap Band,
Oblivians,
Laurel Aitken,
Main Source,
Roy Ayers,
Connie Case,
Jesper Dahlback,
Alison Limerick,
The Invisible,
Yazoo,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.