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 Nicaragua and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Hong Kong.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Hardrive to the grunge 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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
Yusef Lateef,
Mandrill,
Sonic Youth,
Soulsonic Force,
Siglo XX,
Scott Walker,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Essential Logic,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dawn Penn,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Masters at Work,
Khruangbin,
Kaleidoscope,
Bush Tetras,
Deepchord,
The Shadows of Knight,
Con Funk Shun,
Mo-Dettes,
The Slackers,
Roy Ayers,
The Mojo Men,
Deakin,
Blossom Toes,
Lightning Bolt,
The Sound,
The Techniques,
Eric Dolphy,
The Doors,
Johnny Osbourne,
The New Christs,
Nik Kershaw,
The Evens,
Alphaville,
Eve St. Jones,
Derrick May,
Cymande,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Godley & Creme,
Fear,
Nico,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Shoche,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Alison Limerick,
The Golliwogs,
Scratch Acid,
The Grass Roots,
Jimmy McGriff,
Trumans Water,
James White and The Blacks,
The Cure,
The Raincoats,
Average White Band,
Goldenarms,
Donny Hathaway,
Brass Construction,
Buzzcocks,
Accadde A,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.