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 Mexico and from Manila.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro 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 Soul Sonic Force to the techno 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 Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Excepter,
Carl Craig,
Junior Murvin,
Throbbing Gristle,
Q and Not U,
The Martian,
Loose Ends,
Sugar Minott,
Circle Jerks,
Yellowson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Panda Bear,
The Black Dice,
A Certain Ratio,
The Standells,
Gang Starr,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
John Holt,
Faust,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Grass Roots,
Lightning Bolt,
Lindisfarne,
Albert Ayler,
The Cure,
Camberwell Now,
The Gladiators,
Niagra,
Minnie Riperton,
Susan Cadogan,
Grandmaster Flash,
U.S. Maple,
Ornette Coleman,
Little Man,
X-Ray Spex,
Das Ding,
The Associates,
Idris Muhammad,
Oblivians,
Hashim,
Grauzone,
The Angels of Light,
Soulsonic Force,
This Heat,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bootsy Collins,
Rites of Spring,
Section 25,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Theoretical Girls,
DJ Style,
Crooked Eye,
Groovy Waters,
Henry Cow,
Livin' Joy,
Connie Case,
Don Cherry,
Nik Kershaw,
Parry Music,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Suicide,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.