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 Tonga and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the grime 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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All F. McDonald tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
Junior Murvin,
Neu!,
Hasil Adkins,
Marc Almond,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Chrome,
Ice-T,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Arcadia,
Section 25,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Minny Pops,
OOIOO,
Motorama,
The Skatalites,
Livin' Joy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Hoover,
Depeche Mode,
Janne Schatter,
Reuben Wilson,
Au Pairs,
Tres Demented,
Von Mondo,
Alphaville,
Kevin Saunderson,
New Order,
Ultra Naté,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Qualms,
The Gories,
The Star Department,
the Germs,
Rhythm & Sound,
Cheater Slicks,
ABBA,
Erykah Badu,
Mantronix,
Mo-Dettes,
Lightning Bolt,
Crispy Ambulance,
Iggy Pop,
Wings,
Urselle,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ken Boothe,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Radio Birdman,
The Zeros,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jeff Mills,
The Litter,
Gang Gang Dance,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Technova,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Royal Trux,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.