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 Ukraine and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin 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 Tom Boy to the rock 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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Sarah Menescal,
James Chance & The Contortions,
New Age Steppers,
Con Funk Shun,
Gang Green,
The New Christs,
Supertramp,
Wally Richardson,
Yellowson,
Hasil Adkins,
MDC,
Michelle Simonal,
Silicon Teens,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lungfish,
Dark Day,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Radiohead,
Franke,
Arthur Verocai,
Sun Ra,
The Gories,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Throbbing Gristle,
Babytalk,
Minutemen,
Groovy Waters,
The Real Kids,
Absolute Body Control,
Sam Rivers,
This Heat,
Infiniti,
Ralphi Rosario,
Warren Ellis,
John Lydon,
Kenny Larkin,
Skarface,
Flash Fearless,
Average White Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Half Japanese,
Maurizio,
The Smiths,
Drive Like Jehu,
Panda Bear,
Erykah Badu,
Sonic Youth,
Magazine,
Brothers Johnson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Golliwogs,
Reuben Wilson,
Yazoo,
Eve St. Jones,
Bauhaus,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eric Copeland,
D'Angelo,
Rufus Thomas,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Last Poets,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.