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 Guatemala and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Copenhagen.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aswad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ralphi Rosario,
David McCallum,
Nico,
Dorothy Ashby,
Crispian St. Peters,
Janne Schatter,
Chrome,
Sandy B,
E-Dancer,
the Swans,
Eric B and Rakim,
Monolake,
Throbbing Gristle,
X-102,
Porter Ricks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Colin Newman,
Harpers Bizarre,
Khruangbin,
F. McDonald,
Sunsets and Hearts,
X-Ray Spex,
Echospace,
Sällskapet,
Gil Scott Heron,
Radiohead,
Delta 5,
Joy Division,
Freddie Wadling,
The Skatalites,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
A Certain Ratio,
Symarip,
The Slits,
Mantronix,
Television Personalities,
Joe Finger,
The Mojo Men,
Altered Images,
The Techniques,
Curtis Mayfield,
Magma,
Mandrill,
The Saints,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Main Source,
Man Parrish,
Pantytec,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ultra Naté,
Scion,
Albert Ayler,
Camouflage,
The Move,
Black Sheep,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wings,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.