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 Kazakhstan and from Taipei.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe 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 Johnny Clarke to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crime,
Dead Boys,
Qualms,
Main Source,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Agent Orange,
Lalann,
Loose Ends,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Durutti Column,
The Busters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Monks,
The Blackbyrds,
Flamin' Groovies,
Khruangbin,
Kas Product,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Negative Approach,
the Germs,
Mandrill,
The Standells,
Agitation Free,
Spoonie Gee,
Banda Bassotti,
The Slits,
Kool Moe Dee,
Camberwell Now,
Aswad,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yaz,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Curtis Mayfield,
Roger Hodgson,
Andrew Hill,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Idris Muhammad,
The Victims,
Sex Pistols,
D'Angelo,
Minny Pops,
DJ Style,
The Count Five,
Unwound,
Parry Music,
The Skatalites,
Black Flag,
Groovy Waters,
Symarip,
Joe Finger,
Gichy Dan,
Skaos,
Stiv Bators,
Yellowson,
Urselle,
Sam Rivers,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.