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 Spain and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the techno 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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kaleidoscope,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lightning Bolt,
Sugar Minott,
Jawbox,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lucky Dragons,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Stereo Dub,
Joe Finger,
David Bowie,
cv313,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Thompson Twins,
Faust,
Nas,
Zapp,
Funky Four + One,
Desert Stars,
The United States of America,
Basic Channel,
Mark Hollis,
Dennis Brown,
Wasted Youth,
The Wake,
The New Christs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
This Heat,
Television,
Eve St. Jones,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nik Kershaw,
Minor Threat,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gong,
The Seeds,
Organ,
The Music Machine,
Thee Headcoats,
Whodini,
Moss Icon,
Electric Prunes,
Marmalade,
Gabor Szabo,
Brand Nubian,
The Raincoats,
Don Cherry,
Duran Duran,
Unrelated Segments,
Babytalk,
Monolake,
Lalann,
The Litter,
Connie Case,
Sarah Menescal,
Reuben Wilson,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.