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 Dominican Republic and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the marimba 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 Adolescents to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf 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 electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Soft Cell,
Icehouse,
F. McDonald,
Hoover,
Idris Muhammad,
Mandrill,
Royal Trux,
Make Up,
Angry Samoans,
Sixth Finger,
Pylon,
Technova,
Amon Düül II,
Peter and Kerry,
Matthew Bourne,
Soulsonic Force,
Lindisfarne,
Radiohead,
Maleditus Sound,
Robert Görl,
Sound Behaviour,
Minutemen,
Fad Gadget,
Niagra,
The Move,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hashim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stetsasonic,
MDC,
Essential Logic,
Gang Green,
La Düsseldorf,
Minor Threat,
The J.B.'s,
Japan,
the Swans,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Toni Rubio,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Echospace,
Junior Murvin,
Tubeway Army,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jerry's Kids,
Chrome,
Country Teasers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Anthony Braxton,
Al Stewart,
Albert Ayler,
Lebanon Hanover,
Maurizio,
Max Romeo,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.