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 Guatemala and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Reuben Wilson to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Kaleidoscope,
Dennis Brown,
The Fugs,
ABC,
The Black Dice,
The Misunderstood,
Young Marble Giants,
Reuben Wilson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sonic Youth,
The Star Department,
Sällskapet,
Bauhaus,
Chrome,
The Associates,
Cymande,
Infiniti,
Chris Corsano,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Barracudas,
Massinfluence,
Althea and Donna,
A Certain Ratio,
The Moleskins,
Visage,
Joyce Sims,
R.M.O.,
Amon Düül II,
Schoolly D,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Johnny Osbourne,
Hashim,
Alton Ellis,
Parry Music,
Faraquet,
Glenn Branca,
Todd Rundgren,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
David McCallum,
Joy Division,
The Angels of Light,
Section 25,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Blues Magoos,
Idris Muhammad,
Roger Hodgson,
Zero Boys,
Yazoo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eurythmics,
KRS-One,
The Motions,
Ten City,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Leaves,
DJ Style,
Derrick May,
Dawn Penn,
Make Up,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.