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 Thailand and from Tokyo.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Richard Hell and the Voidoids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Bobby Byrd,
Quadrant,
Schoolly D,
Hashim,
Urselle,
The Techniques,
Thompson Twins,
Wolf Eyes,
Dave Gahan,
Can,
Arthur Verocai,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Nirvana,
Wings,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Drive Like Jehu,
Maleditus Sound,
UT,
Bob Dylan,
The Sonics,
Q65,
Gabor Szabo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Boogie Down Productions,
Al Stewart,
Underground Resistance,
New Order,
Kerri Chandler,
The Detroit Cobras,
Nico,
the Bar-Kays,
Vainqueur,
Buzzcocks,
Marmalade,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Iggy Pop,
Ten City,
Harpers Bizarre,
Circle Jerks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ralphi Rosario,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Hood,
Rosa Yemen,
Flash Fearless,
Brick,
Ronnie Foster,
Leonard Cohen,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jeff Lynne,
Roxy Music,
Con Funk Shun,
Black Flag,
Max Romeo,
Supertramp,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sam Rivers,
Pulsallama,
Radiopuhelimet,
Khruangbin,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.