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 Kiribati 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar 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 Stereo Dub to the dance 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All The American Breed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Funky Four + One,
Wolf Eyes,
Vainqueur,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cluster,
Leonard Cohen,
Scrapy,
Amon Düül,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ornette Coleman,
Bizarre Inc.,
Circle Jerks,
Ponytail,
The Offenders,
Depeche Mode,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Man Parrish,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Dave Gahan,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Walker Brothers,
Shuggie Otis,
Smog,
The Martian,
Gang Green,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Alphaville,
Roy Ayers,
Bad Manners,
Joensuu 1685,
Desert Stars,
Ralphi Rosario,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Happenings,
These Immortal Souls,
Liliput,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pylon,
Gang Gang Dance,
Joy Division,
The Fugs,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Prince Buster,
Nirvana,
The Monks,
Royal Trux,
The Gun Club,
Crash Course in Science,
Thee Headcoats,
Neil Young,
The Wake,
Warren Ellis,
Maurizio,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.