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 Tunisia 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the dance 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oppenheimer Analysis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mandrill,
Junior Murvin,
Cameo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Danielle Patucci,
Funkadelic,
Nas,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Sound,
Hashim,
Deepchord,
Gong,
One Last Wish,
Stockholm Monsters,
Matthew Halsall,
Sound Behaviour,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fugs,
Derrick Morgan,
The Gun Club,
Dual Sessions,
Robert Wyatt,
Index,
The Durutti Column,
Aaron Thompson,
Jeff Mills,
Bad Manners,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Magazine,
Audionom,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joensuu 1685,
The Star Department,
The Motions,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Joe Finger,
Johnny Clarke,
Pierre Henry,
Q65,
Rekid,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thee Headcoats,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Vogues,
the Sonics,
Piero Umiliani,
CMW,
Fugazi,
Delta 5,
Kaleidoscope,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Seeds,
Panda Bear,
The Last Poets,
Dorothy Ashby,
Nils Olav,
Jandek,
FM Einheit,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
F. McDonald,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.