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 China 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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Busters to the dance 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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a World's Most record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Inner City,
Pole,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Shadows of Knight,
Andrew Hill,
Easy Going,
Television,
The Cramps,
T. Rex,
Jesper Dahlback,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Nik Kershaw,
Metal Thangz,
Oneida,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pagans,
Alison Limerick,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bobby Byrd,
The Human League,
Flash Fearless,
The United States of America,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Boz Scaggs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
These Immortal Souls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Underground Resistance,
Ponytail,
Zapp,
Lightning Bolt,
Television Personalities,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Boredoms,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Swans,
Deadbeat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cluster,
Jeru the Damaja,
Don Cherry,
Mandrill,
Darondo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
MDC,
Von Mondo,
Roy Ayers,
the Human League,
The Remains,
Wings,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Raincoats,
Nils Olav,
Eric Dolphy,
Pulsallama,
the Association,
The Cowsills,
Robert Wyatt,
The Skatalites,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.