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 Jamaica and from Philadelphia.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 Marvin Gaye to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donald Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Durutti Column,
The Doobie Brothers,
Juan Atkins,
Rakim,
T.S.O.L.,
Sandy B,
The Angels of Light,
Eli Mardock,
PIL,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
A Certain Ratio,
Susan Cadogan,
Altered Images,
Eric B and Rakim,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nils Olav,
The Blues Magoos,
Grandmaster Flash,
Monks,
Wire,
Sixth Finger,
Fad Gadget,
Freddie Wadling,
The Zeros,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Radiopuhelimet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bill Wells,
The Real Kids,
Maleditus Sound,
Technova,
Thee Headcoats,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Johnny Osbourne,
LL Cool J,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kurtis Blow,
Jeru the Damaja,
Newcleus,
Barclay James Harvest,
Minutemen,
Darondo,
Agitation Free,
Eric Copeland,
Alton Ellis,
Quantec,
Minor Threat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Echospace,
Ultravox,
Index,
Boz Scaggs,
Gang Gang Dance,
Moss Icon,
Barry Ungar,
F. McDonald,
Howard Jones,
Lalo Schifrin,
AZ,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Gap Band,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.