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 United Kingdom and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the snare 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 The Young Rascals to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Nation of Ulysses. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
Cymande,
Gang Green,
Surgeon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Technova,
Hashim,
Bill Wells,
Sexual Harrassment,
Babytalk,
8 Eyed Spy,
Los Fastidios,
Wings,
Cluster,
Monolake,
Brass Construction,
Duran Duran,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Inner City,
Public Enemy,
Dawn Penn,
Robert Görl,
Ossler,
Severed Heads,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nico,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Mission of Burma,
The Gories,
June Days,
Clear Light,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
John Cale,
Average White Band,
In Retrospect,
Colin Newman,
Ponytail,
Basic Channel,
Von Mondo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mantronix,
Gong,
Yellowson,
Yazoo,
Electric Prunes,
Sarah Menescal,
The Count Five,
Symarip,
Andrew Hill,
Minor Threat,
Max Romeo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fad Gadget,
Dennis Brown,
Cameo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Khruangbin,
Shoche,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.