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 Liberia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ossler to the electroclash 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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic 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?
Idris Muhammad,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Deadbeat,
The Mojo Men,
Bobby Womack,
The Gories,
Roxy Music,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Neon Judgement,
48th St. Collective,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Intrusion,
FM Einheit,
Make Up,
Scan 7,
Scion,
Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Victims,
Wings,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lou Reed,
The Kinks,
Warren Ellis,
Ultra Naté,
Flash Fearless,
Television,
Massinfluence,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Laurel Aitken,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Smiths,
Japan,
Television Personalities,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Vainqueur,
La Düsseldorf,
Khruangbin,
Ituana,
Yaz,
Judy Mowatt,
Angry Samoans,
Accadde A,
China Crisis,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Black Dice,
the Human League,
Carl Craig,
Whodini,
John Foxx,
Alison Limerick,
The Music Machine,
One Last Wish,
The Sonics,
Pole,
The Fugs,
Hardrive,
Babytalk,
Todd Rundgren,
Toni Rubio,
These Immortal Souls,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.