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 Mali and from Paris.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Grey Daturas to the electroclash 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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Fall,
In Retrospect,
John Cale,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Maurizio,
R.M.O.,
Deadbeat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Section 25,
Dark Day,
John Coltrane,
Monolake,
Lalann,
Yusef Lateef,
The Monks,
Junior Murvin,
Electric Prunes,
Khruangbin,
Gang Gang Dance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bill Near,
Sonic Youth,
The Toasters,
H. Thieme,
The Electric Prunes,
The Tremeloes,
Crime,
The Real Kids,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bauhaus,
Motorama,
Radio Birdman,
David McCallum,
The Mummies,
JFA,
The Martian,
Moss Icon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
F. McDonald,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Count Five,
The Birthday Party,
the Soft Cell,
Barry Ungar,
Easy Going,
The Young Rascals,
Swell Maps,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Country Teasers,
Joyce Sims,
The Sound,
Kas Product,
10cc,
Eric B and Rakim,
Morten Harket,
Quando Quango,
the Normal,
Bobby Byrd,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.