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 Italy and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 spring reverb 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 Reagan Youth to the dance 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Evens,
Eli Mardock,
Average White Band,
Funky Four + One,
Camberwell Now,
June of 44,
The Smiths,
Laurel Aitken,
Pussy Galore,
D'Angelo,
Quadrant,
Leonard Cohen,
The Busters,
Flipper,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ponytail,
Icehouse,
The Gladiators,
Rekid,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Goldenarms,
Spandau Ballet,
Essential Logic,
the Association,
Jacob Miller,
Rapeman,
Moby Grape,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Sheep,
Country Teasers,
Jeff Mills,
The Names,
MC5,
Ituana,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Index,
The Modern Lovers,
Chris & Cosey,
Grauzone,
Iggy Pop,
Harmonia,
T.S.O.L.,
Colin Newman,
Maleditus Sound,
Scott Walker,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lucky Dragons,
Cheater Slicks,
The Beau Brummels,
Gang Gang Dance,
Flash Fearless,
Sarah Menescal,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Mark Hollis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalann,
Danielle Patucci,
Section 25,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.