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 Thailand and from Stockholm.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 808 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 Fugazi 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Moebius,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Godley & Creme,
Unrelated Segments,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Supertramp,
FM Einheit,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ultra Naté,
The Selecter,
Ralphi Rosario,
Young Marble Giants,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Standells,
Mo-Dettes,
Kenny Larkin,
Rotary Connection,
The Toasters,
Chris & Cosey,
Gregory Isaacs,
Roger Hodgson,
Blossom Toes,
Davy DMX,
Drexciya,
Ohio Players,
Minor Threat,
The Young Rascals,
Soul Sonic Force,
Don Cherry,
Von Mondo,
Sight & Sound,
Ken Boothe,
Ponytail,
Alton Ellis,
ABC,
Alphaville,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joe Finger,
Delta 5,
The Birthday Party,
Crispian St. Peters,
John Lydon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Anthony Braxton,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Neon Judgement,
David Bowie,
The Moleskins,
Roxy Music,
Mantronix,
Kerri Chandler,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fifty Foot Hose,
New Order,
The Divine Comedy,
Talk Talk,
Bronski Beat,
Nas,
Faraquet,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.