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 Tunisia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Hardrive to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The United States of America record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals 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?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minutemen,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Banda Bassotti,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joensuu 1685,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Trojans,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Archie Shepp,
Interpol,
the Swans,
Cheater Slicks,
Slick Rick,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pantaleimon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bang On A Can,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Barracudas,
Tropical Tobacco,
Juan Atkins,
Pole,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Electric Prunes,
Simply Red,
Groovy Waters,
Magazine,
L. Decosne,
Tubeway Army,
Blake Baxter,
Pharoah Sanders,
Oblivians,
Agitation Free,
The Sonics,
Kenny Larkin,
Piero Umiliani,
Girls At Our Best!,
Idris Muhammad,
Blossom Toes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Glenn Branca,
Jacob Miller,
The Birthday Party,
Wire,
FM Einheit,
Jawbox,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Man Parrish,
The Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Angels of Light,
Radio Birdman,
Aloha Tigers,
Con Funk Shun,
Kaleidoscope,
Todd Terry,
Smog,
The Golliwogs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kas Product,
Boogie Down Productions,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.