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 Jamaica and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Germs to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All Rites of Spring tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Dawn Penn,
Dorothy Ashby,
Skriet,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Amazonics,
Boredoms,
Lou Christie,
the Slits,
Accadde A,
Swell Maps,
the Normal,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Buzzcocks,
Can,
Archie Shepp,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
EPMD,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mark Hollis,
Graham Central Station,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kayak,
Duran Duran,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Swans,
Mandrill,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kurtis Blow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bill Wells,
Althea and Donna,
Joe Finger,
Rekid,
Alison Limerick,
Anakelly,
Angry Samoans,
Crash Course in Science,
Cybotron,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Organ,
Mad Mike,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deadbeat,
Al Stewart,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Oblivians,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Los Fastidios,
Easy Going,
R.M.O.,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nirvana,
Pagans,
The Monochrome Set,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Isaac Hayes,
Second Layer,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The United States of America,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.