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 Belarus and from Bologna.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Minor Threat to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
Urselle,
Dawn Penn,
Kaleidoscope,
Fear,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Unwound,
Magma,
Isaac Hayes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Juan Atkins,
Funkadelic,
Jesper Dahlback,
La Düsseldorf,
Blake Baxter,
Underground Resistance,
The Real Kids,
The Leaves,
Nico,
Ronnie Foster,
Agitation Free,
Stetsasonic,
Janne Schatter,
Jacob Miller,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Invisible,
Matthew Halsall,
The Monochrome Set,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
a-ha,
Index,
Talk Talk,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Associates,
Toni Rubio,
Nils Olav,
Kayak,
The Electric Prunes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scan 7,
Bang On A Can,
The Saints,
John Lydon,
Yellowson,
Pantaleimon,
Wire,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Audionom,
Spandau Ballet,
Radiohead,
Tommy Roe,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Sonics,
Archie Shepp,
The New Christs,
Minny Pops,
Livin' Joy,
Joe Smooth,
R.M.O.,
Soul Sonic Force,
Andrew Hill,
Gichy Dan,
Pere Ubu,
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.