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 Tanzania and from Winnipeg.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Grandmaster Flash to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Iggy Pop,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Groovy Waters,
Susan Cadogan,
The Names,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Minor Threat,
The Grass Roots,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Thee Headcoats,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fuzztones,
Television Personalities,
Cal Tjader,
The Slits,
KRS-One,
DNA,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fatback Band,
The Moody Blues,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Amon Düül II,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Neil Young,
Aloha Tigers,
New York Dolls,
Marc Almond,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Khruangbin,
Mantronix,
Kurtis Blow,
Absolute Body Control,
Lindisfarne,
Swans,
AZ,
Swell Maps,
The Durutti Column,
The Divine Comedy,
Ituana,
The Music Machine,
Big Daddy Kane,
China Crisis,
Steve Hackett,
Sparks,
The Fortunes,
Ronnie Foster,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Sonics,
Shoche,
H. Thieme,
The Birthday Party,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fire Engines,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Accadde A,
Minnie Riperton,
Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas.
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.