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 Brunei and from Portland.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Easy Going to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
The Mojo Men,
Ultra Naté,
Tomorrow,
Pierre Henry,
Smog,
Leonard Cohen,
Arab on Radar,
Mad Mike,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Frankie Knuckles,
Newcleus,
Au Pairs,
Faraquet,
Moss Icon,
The Invisible,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fat Boys,
Gang Green,
Sällskapet,
Second Layer,
Erasure,
Unwound,
Accadde A,
Pantaleimon,
John Lydon,
Grauzone,
Maurizio,
Parry Music,
Gang Gang Dance,
LL Cool J,
Rites of Spring,
Anthony Braxton,
Kevin Saunderson,
Duran Duran,
Make Up,
The Stooges,
Bang On A Can,
Moebius,
Roy Ayers,
The Black Dice,
Mars,
Amon Düül II,
The Mummies,
Lou Reed,
The Five Americans,
Unrelated Segments,
The Angels of Light,
Johnny Osbourne,
Marmalade,
Tears for Fears,
Visage,
The Red Krayola,
Nirvana,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Loose Ends,
X-102,
PIL,
Theoretical Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.