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 Monaco and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 In Retrospect to the disco 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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tropical Tobacco record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
The Trojans,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lalann,
Symarip,
Archie Shepp,
Stereo Dub,
Camberwell Now,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marcia Griffiths,
Terrestrial Tones,
Nirvana,
Franke,
Rosa Yemen,
Rakim,
Rotary Connection,
The Barracudas,
Gang Starr,
The Black Dice,
Bush Tetras,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Technova,
Sparks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Loose Ends,
Los Fastidios,
The Happenings,
Grauzone,
The Red Krayola,
Von Mondo,
Panda Bear,
New Order,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Organ,
the Human League,
Bad Manners,
Audionom,
Derrick May,
Jacob Miller,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
John Holt,
Derrick Morgan,
Isaac Hayes,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Freddie Wadling,
Maleditus Sound,
Gastr Del Sol,
Khruangbin,
Tomorrow,
Sun City Girls,
Eli Mardock,
Clear Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Siglo XX,
Gang Green,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Association,
Bobbi Humphrey,
David McCallum,
Basic Channel,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.