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 Switzerland and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Ponytail to the crunk 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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,
Flamin' Groovies,
Althea and Donna,
Warren Ellis,
The Smoke,
Cheater Slicks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Public Enemy,
Metal Thangz,
Maleditus Sound,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Stiv Bators,
The Neon Judgement,
Alphaville,
Liliput,
Thompson Twins,
Shoche,
Amazonics,
Charles Mingus,
Sex Pistols,
Nick Fraelich,
Vladislav Delay,
Gichy Dan,
The Birthday Party,
Scan 7,
David Axelrod,
Hardrive,
Banda Bassotti,
Harry Pussy,
Tres Demented,
Massinfluence,
the Fania All-Stars,
Grey Daturas,
Khruangbin,
Scrapy,
Scott Walker,
Funkadelic,
Quadrant,
Soul II Soul,
LL Cool J,
Procol Harum,
Matthew Halsall,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Theoretical Girls,
Reuben Wilson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Black Sheep,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Derrick May,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Swans,
John Foxx,
Basic Channel,
Zapp,
Boredoms,
D'Angelo,
Monks,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.