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 Congo and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 spring reverb 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 Archie Shepp to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Josef K,
Flipper,
Camberwell Now,
One Last Wish,
Little Man,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Television Personalities,
Japan,
Jandek,
Soft Cell,
Section 25,
Boogie Down Productions,
R.M.O.,
Heaven 17,
Negative Approach,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Sonics,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Silicon Teens,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Christie,
The Smiths,
The Happenings,
New Order,
Young Marble Giants,
Whodini,
The Leaves,
The Toasters,
Wally Richardson,
Scrapy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Average White Band,
Q and Not U,
Gang Starr,
Kayak,
Traffic Nightmare,
kango's stein massive,
Harry Pussy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cheater Slicks,
The Doors,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The J.B.'s,
EPMD,
Matthew Halsall,
The Motions,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Los Fastidios,
Alice Coltrane,
Talk Talk,
Roxette,
Dual Sessions,
Blake Baxter,
The Electric Prunes,
Rotary Connection,
Reuben Wilson,
Wolf Eyes,
Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans.
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.