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 Ethiopia and from Portland.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 clarinet 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 Audionom to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Peter and Kerry,
Toni Rubio,
Lindisfarne,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
David Bowie,
Bluetip,
Circle Jerks,
The Fuzztones,
Ituana,
The Slits,
Royal Trux,
Kenny Larkin,
Schoolly D,
Siglo XX,
Iggy Pop,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Procol Harum,
Young Marble Giants,
Mantronix,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Aural Exciters,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Music Machine,
Nas,
Rufus Thomas,
Bad Manners,
Moby Grape,
Scratch Acid,
Buzzcocks,
the Association,
The Wake,
The Human League,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
David McCallum,
Visage,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Smoke,
Roy Ayers,
Country Teasers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
This Heat,
Robert Wyatt,
Moss Icon,
Bobby Sherman,
Graham Central Station,
Sound Behaviour,
Hoover,
MC5,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jerry's Kids,
Porter Ricks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scott Walker,
Joey Negro,
The Cure,
Au Pairs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
L. Decosne,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.