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 Vietnam and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 World's Most to the grunge 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 The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Los Fastidios,
U.S. Maple,
KRS-One,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DJ Sneak,
Guru Guru,
The Gladiators,
Bill Wells,
Soulsonic Force,
Swell Maps,
Yaz,
the Human League,
Morten Harket,
Letta Mbulu,
Moss Icon,
The Star Department,
Davy DMX,
Erasure,
The Gories,
Jacob Miller,
Anakelly,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Reed,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ice-T,
Scott Walker,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Skriet,
Ituana,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sun Ra,
Michelle Simonal,
FM Einheit,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Minny Pops,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eddi Front,
10cc,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Electric Prunes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eden Ahbez,
Slave,
Lower 48,
Suburban Knight,
The Selecter,
Black Moon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Severed Heads,
Matthew Halsall,
The Count Five,
The Modern Lovers,
Andrew Hill,
Section 25,
Zapp,
DJ Style,
Reuben Wilson,
B.T. Express,
Derrick May,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.