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 Syria and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 Freddie Wadling to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
Camouflage,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Nas,
Joey Negro,
Loose Ends,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Byrd,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Minor Threat,
Dennis Brown,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mr. Review,
Arthur Verocai,
Hot Snakes,
Slave,
The Remains,
the Human League,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Beau Brummels,
Anakelly,
Aloha Tigers,
In Retrospect,
Black Flag,
Masters at Work,
Wally Richardson,
Sound Behaviour,
Flipper,
Swans,
Lower 48,
The Seeds,
The New Christs,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
R.M.O.,
The Monochrome Set,
The Names,
K-Klass,
Toni Rubio,
David Bowie,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Thompson Twins,
The Human League,
It's A Beautiful Day,
DJ Sneak,
Jeff Mills,
The Litter,
KRS-One,
Isaac Hayes,
Inner City,
Yaz,
Stereo Dub,
Donny Hathaway,
Radiopuhelimet,
Susan Cadogan,
John Holt,
Sam Rivers,
Altered Images,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.