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 Kosovo and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 Warsaw to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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?
Lucky Dragons,
Sparks,
The Count Five,
Alison Limerick,
Cameo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roger Hodgson,
F. McDonald,
The Red Krayola,
The Last Poets,
Junior Murvin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Modern Lovers,
Skriet,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Adolescents,
Main Source,
Suburban Knight,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Can,
The Gories,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
LL Cool J,
Quando Quango,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
Mandrill,
Moby Grape,
Eurythmics,
Radio Birdman,
Oblivians,
Young Marble Giants,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sun Ra,
Gil Scott Heron,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Saints,
Jerry's Kids,
Lee Hazlewood,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Scott Walker,
Pantaleimon,
Scrapy,
Japan,
Lou Christie,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
CMW,
Warren Ellis,
Whodini,
Quantec,
Roy Ayers,
Section 25,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nick Fraelich,
Eli Mardock,
Thompson Twins,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.