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 Azerbaijan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Junior Murvin to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and a synthesizer 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 spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Maleditus Sound,
Hot Snakes,
Thompson Twins,
Subhumans,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kas Product,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bill Wells,
Danielle Patucci,
The Selecter,
Skarface,
Ten City,
Sonic Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
New York Dolls,
the Fania All-Stars,
Arab on Radar,
The Human League,
The Slits,
a-ha,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sam Rivers,
Buzzcocks,
Toni Rubio,
H. Thieme,
These Immortal Souls,
The Remains,
Gichy Dan,
The Sound,
the Bar-Kays,
Deepchord,
The Shadows of Knight,
John Foxx,
Wire,
The Dead C,
Icehouse,
World's Most,
One Last Wish,
Malaria!,
Soul II Soul,
Second Layer,
The New Christs,
Minny Pops,
Sparks,
Ituana,
Colin Newman,
The Busters,
The Gladiators,
Brand Nubian,
Hasil Adkins,
Reuben Wilson,
Franke,
La Düsseldorf,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scrapy,
The Sonics,
Organ,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.