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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Halifax.
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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Dual Sessions to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bob Dylan,
The Doors,
Accadde A,
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Sonics,
Sister Nancy,
Kurtis Blow,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wally Richardson,
Tim Buckley,
Barclay James Harvest,
Electric Prunes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pierre Henry,
The Music Machine,
Lucky Dragons,
Judy Mowatt,
John Foxx,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
New Order,
Eden Ahbez,
The Residents,
Piero Umiliani,
Chris Corsano,
The Leaves,
Jandek,
Flipper,
Harmonia,
Chrome,
Jeff Mills,
Icehouse,
Deadbeat,
Mandrill,
Rites of Spring,
Marvin Gaye,
Black Pus,
The Gladiators,
Dead Boys,
Chris & Cosey,
Janne Schatter,
The Saints,
Urselle,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Section 25,
In Retrospect,
Black Flag,
Unwound,
CMW,
Qualms,
Crispian St. Peters,
David McCallum,
Mary Jane Girls,
Derrick May,
Rekid,
the Slits,
The Happenings,
the Fania All-Stars,
MDC,
The Associates,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.