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 Peru and from Seoul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Sound to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
DJ Style,
Skriet,
Sällskapet,
Camberwell Now,
Excepter,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sight & Sound,
Niagra,
Yaz,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Derrick Morgan,
Johnny Clarke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Bar-Kays,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fall,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rakim,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Donald Byrd,
Clear Light,
Second Layer,
Dead Boys,
E-Dancer,
Juan Atkins,
The Knickerbockers,
Bauhaus,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lightning Bolt,
Absolute Body Control,
Lungfish,
Moss Icon,
The New Christs,
Deakin,
Rapeman,
Icehouse,
Bootsy Collins,
Deadbeat,
OOIOO,
Marmalade,
Eurythmics,
June of 44,
Das Ding,
The Golliwogs,
Arab on Radar,
Main Source,
The Fortunes,
Pagans,
Kaleidoscope,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mad Mike,
Carl Craig,
Simply Red,
The Mojo Men,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roxy Music,
Quadrant,
The Gories,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.