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 Croatia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Toronto.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Eurythmics to the funk 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 Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Selector Dub Narcotic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Stooges,
Little Man,
Trumans Water,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Television Personalities,
Harpers Bizarre,
OOIOO,
Oblivians,
Jeru the Damaja,
Junior Murvin,
Masters at Work,
Swell Maps,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Motorama,
Nation of Ulysses,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Adolescents,
the Sonics,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Quando Quango,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pharoah Sanders,
Charles Mingus,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Remains,
The Fugs,
Severed Heads,
Public Enemy,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Slits,
Sarah Menescal,
Harmonia,
Frankie Knuckles,
Radiopuhelimet,
Thompson Twins,
Accadde A,
Faust,
David McCallum,
Skarface,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Maurizio,
Pierre Henry,
Scan 7,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Echospace,
Young Marble Giants,
The American Breed,
The Vogues,
The Pop Group,
The Durutti Column,
Ice-T,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Blake Baxter,
Sex Pistols,
Simply Red,
Pet Shop Boys,
Unrelated Segments,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.