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 Mexico and from Toronto.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Ajijia Myrayebe to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Lyres,
Scion,
The Pop Group,
FM Einheit,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Spoonie Gee,
Pere Ubu,
K-Klass,
MC5,
Brass Construction,
Scientists,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Q65,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Country Teasers,
Altered Images,
Lalo Schifrin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Funky Four + One,
the Association,
The Moody Blues,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dennis Brown,
KRS-One,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Donny Hathaway,
Babytalk,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pussy Galore,
The Divine Comedy,
La Düsseldorf,
Fear,
Masters at Work,
Chris & Cosey,
Stockholm Monsters,
Carl Craig,
X-102,
X-Ray Spex,
10cc,
Ludus,
Banda Bassotti,
Loose Ends,
The Raincoats,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Fall,
Ronan,
The Gap Band,
Pylon,
Groovy Waters,
Alice Coltrane,
A Certain Ratio,
John Lydon,
The Sound,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Matthew Halsall,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
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.