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 Japan and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 clarinet 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 Barrington Levy to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Black Sheep,
Nick Fraelich,
Black Pus,
OOIOO,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Avey Tare,
Wasted Youth,
Faraquet,
John Coltrane,
Jacob Miller,
Aswad,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Audionom,
Excepter,
Essential Logic,
D'Angelo,
Ossler,
Technova,
Leonard Cohen,
Deakin,
T. Rex,
Eric Dolphy,
The Selecter,
Flash Fearless,
Soft Cell,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Guru Guru,
Eddi Front,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Duran Duran,
Man Parrish,
Make Up,
10cc,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Fire Engines,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
H. Thieme,
Pantaleimon,
The Invisible,
Lalann,
Au Pairs,
The Human League,
Wings,
kango's stein massive,
Silicon Teens,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jeff Mills,
Lyres,
L. Decosne,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Glenn Branca,
Aaron Thompson,
Harmonia,
The Index,
Little Man,
UT,
This Heat,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.