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 Montenegro 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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 China Crisis to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Brand Nubian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tears for Fears,
Derrick Morgan,
The Kinks,
The Names,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Cramps,
Derrick May,
Connie Case,
Masters at Work,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chrome,
Neu!,
The Slackers,
Flamin' Groovies,
Minor Threat,
D'Angelo,
the Sonics,
Grauzone,
Sam Rivers,
New Age Steppers,
Rapeman,
the Association,
Fad Gadget,
The Music Machine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Excepter,
Parry Music,
Sugar Minott,
Wolf Eyes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gang Starr,
Amon Düül,
Wire,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kerri Chandler,
Mantronix,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Delta 5,
Visage,
JFA,
Gang Green,
Brass Construction,
Funky Four + One,
Blake Baxter,
Mission of Burma,
Y Pants,
Spandau Ballet,
the Bar-Kays,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
X-101,
Gang of Four,
Robert Hood,
F. McDonald,
Section 25,
The Techniques,
Popol Vuh,
The Detroit Cobras,
The J.B.'s,
Zero Boys,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.