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 Cuba and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the marimba 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 Dave Gahan to the funk 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Reagan Youth,
Bronski Beat,
Bobby Byrd,
Dead Boys,
The Birthday Party,
The Gap Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Brass Construction,
Wally Richardson,
Eve St. Jones,
Soul II Soul,
Joyce Sims,
Peter & Gordon,
Donny Hathaway,
X-101,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jerry's Kids,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Steve Hackett,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Popol Vuh,
48th St. Collective,
New Age Steppers,
The Names,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scion,
Gerry Rafferty,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Divine Comedy,
Al Stewart,
Joe Smooth,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The J.B.'s,
The Gun Club,
Piero Umiliani,
Lightning Bolt,
Grauzone,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Depeche Mode,
Robert Görl,
Freddie Wadling,
Aswad,
The Alarm Clocks,
Alphaville,
Wasted Youth,
The Golliwogs,
Babytalk,
Faust,
The Doobie Brothers,
Circle Jerks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kayak,
Eric Dolphy,
Desert Stars,
Thee Headcoats,
Icehouse,
Stiv Bators,
David Bowie,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.