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 Antigua 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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pylon to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
Livin' Joy,
China Crisis,
Gang of Four,
The Happenings,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Spoonie Gee,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Niagra,
Desert Stars,
Janne Schatter,
Barbara Tucker,
LL Cool J,
Groovy Waters,
Public Enemy,
UT,
Alison Limerick,
Quadrant,
Altered Images,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Smoke,
Soft Machine,
Rekid,
Glenn Branca,
Archie Shepp,
June of 44,
The Motions,
Surgeon,
Maurizio,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Erasure,
La Düsseldorf,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ituana,
Faust,
Khruangbin,
Shoche,
The Martian,
Leonard Cohen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Easy Going,
Lightning Bolt,
Zero Boys,
Interpol,
Scrapy,
Zapp,
the Normal,
Skarface,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dawn Penn,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Parrish,
Half Japanese,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sparks,
Yellowson,
the Germs,
James White and The Blacks,
Juan Atkins,
Pet Shop Boys,
Masters at Work,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.