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 Austria and from Spokane.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Martian,
The Gap Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sarah Menescal,
Gregory Isaacs,
UT,
Jacob Miller,
Marc Almond,
Young Marble Giants,
Nik Kershaw,
Patti Smith,
The Music Machine,
K-Klass,
Audionom,
Harry Pussy,
The Young Rascals,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Porter Ricks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Royal Trux,
Procol Harum,
Sugar Minott,
Maurizio,
Yellowson,
Al Stewart,
In Retrospect,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Country Teasers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Technova,
Pantytec,
James White and The Blacks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Talk Talk,
Bill Near,
Dave Gahan,
AZ,
Desert Stars,
Motorama,
Alice Coltrane,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bill Wells,
Harmonia,
Siglo XX,
Schoolly D,
Q65,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Derrick Morgan,
Eden Ahbez,
Shoche,
The Motions,
kango's stein massive,
Thee Headcoats,
Marvin Gaye,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scrapy,
Sister Nancy,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.