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 Indonesia and from Manila.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Warsaw to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeru the Damaja,
Khruangbin,
X-102,
Michelle Simonal,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
June Days,
Mars,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bauhaus,
The Grass Roots,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Beau Brummels,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Fuzztones,
Grauzone,
the Swans,
Ituana,
Magma,
Animal Collective,
Visage,
Funky Four + One,
Girls At Our Best!,
Charles Mingus,
Josef K,
June of 44,
Circle Jerks,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Young Rascals,
Slick Rick,
Jesper Dahlback,
Flamin' Groovies,
Marmalade,
Lebanon Hanover,
Surgeon,
Minny Pops,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
David Axelrod,
the Soft Cell,
Yusef Lateef,
Television Personalities,
Quando Quango,
Agitation Free,
Erykah Badu,
The Barracudas,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dual Sessions,
Moebius,
Sight & Sound,
Flipper,
Crime,
Nation of Ulysses,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Malaria!,
The Invisible,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Unwound,
Hardrive,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.