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 Brazil and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Minor Threat to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Man Eating Sloth,
Fatback Band,
MDC,
Eurythmics,
Brick,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Au Pairs,
The Cramps,
Jawbox,
Jeff Mills,
Tommy Roe,
Main Source,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Human League,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Moby Grape,
Ludus,
Easy Going,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Yazoo,
Hot Snakes,
Gang of Four,
Henry Cow,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eric Copeland,
Alton Ellis,
The Moleskins,
Matthew Halsall,
Fugazi,
Swans,
Tears for Fears,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cybotron,
Graham Central Station,
Marvin Gaye,
Crime,
Lalo Schifrin,
Model 500,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Maurizio,
Roxy Music,
Vladislav Delay,
Scrapy,
Ultra Naté,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Five Americans,
Bobby Womack,
Ralphi Rosario,
Icehouse,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Lydon,
Grauzone,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Slick Rick,
Josef K,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.