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 Yemen and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
KRS-One,
Outsiders,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cramps,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Angels of Light,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Smoke,
Sexual Harrassment,
Echospace,
Sandy B,
Whodini,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Main Source,
Siglo XX,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Barracudas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gastr Del Sol,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Radiohead,
Q and Not U,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ludus,
The Dirtbombs,
Fear,
Reuben Wilson,
Wolf Eyes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
cv313,
Colin Newman,
Gichy Dan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joey Negro,
Angry Samoans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Black Flag,
The Doors,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Silicon Teens,
Bill Wells,
Depeche Mode,
Jawbox,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DJ Style,
Fatback Band,
The Invisible,
Porter Ricks,
Arcadia,
Warsaw,
Yazoo,
Judy Mowatt,
Lou Christie,
Cheater Slicks,
Roxy Music,
Dead Boys,
Rufus Thomas,
Eli Mardock,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.