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 Mongolia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Golliwogs to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 American Breed. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Gregory Isaacs,
cv313,
The Grass Roots,
Lungfish,
Camouflage,
Darondo,
Howard Jones,
Delta 5,
Minnie Riperton,
Lee Hazlewood,
Suicide,
Robert Wyatt,
Blossom Toes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jeff Mills,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Vladislav Delay,
The Golliwogs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lou Christie,
Urselle,
Ossler,
Vainqueur,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Index,
Junior Murvin,
Fatback Band,
Sarah Menescal,
The Saints,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter & Gordon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Soft Cell,
Sexual Harrassment,
Max Romeo,
Brass Construction,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Busters,
Hoover,
Tommy Roe,
The Walker Brothers,
Don Cherry,
Eli Mardock,
Von Mondo,
Supertramp,
The Fortunes,
Prince Buster,
Technova,
Rosa Yemen,
Pierre Henry,
Leonard Cohen,
The Moody Blues,
The Birthday Party,
Yaz,
Mars,
Letta Mbulu,
Joe Finger,
Ultra Naté,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Gap Band,
DJ Style,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.