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 Peru and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Fluxion to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Los Fastidios,
Suburban Knight,
Grey Daturas,
The Dead C,
Scott Walker,
Siglo XX,
Can,
Spoonie Gee,
One Last Wish,
Bush Tetras,
Subhumans,
Ultravox,
The Names,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Beau Brummels,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Echospace,
Panda Bear,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gastr Del Sol,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Zeros,
Neil Young,
Connie Case,
Tres Demented,
Matthew Bourne,
Gang Starr,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Glenn Branca,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Half Japanese,
Juan Atkins,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kurtis Blow,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Saints,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
F. McDonald,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Nirvana,
Anakelly,
The Count Five,
Soul II Soul,
Bronski Beat,
The Litter,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Black Dice,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Smiths,
The Electric Prunes,
Throbbing Gristle,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Deadbeat,
Toni Rubio,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.