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 Swaziland 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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eric B and Rakim to the grime 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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Fatback Band,
Lou Reed,
Eurythmics,
Lucky Dragons,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bill Wells,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Minor Threat,
Derrick Morgan,
Mandrill,
Chris Corsano,
Matthew Bourne,
Excepter,
Nik Kershaw,
Bobby Sherman,
Inner City,
Animal Collective,
Bootsy Collins,
Marc Almond,
Bluetip,
Icehouse,
Livin' Joy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Red Krayola,
The Modern Lovers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bobby Womack,
Letta Mbulu,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Stereo Dub,
The Moody Blues,
Joe Finger,
Unwound,
The Star Department,
Rotary Connection,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tubeway Army,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Section 25,
Unrelated Segments,
David Bowie,
Kerri Chandler,
Duran Duran,
Intrusion,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Victims,
Surgeon,
Aural Exciters,
David Axelrod,
Boredoms,
Bang On A Can,
The Blues Magoos,
Silicon Teens,
Stetsasonic,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.