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 Monaco 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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Yusef Lateef to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
The Knickerbockers,
Masters at Work,
Cluster,
The Sonics,
Aloha Tigers,
Aaron Thompson,
Motorama,
Adolescents,
The Doobie Brothers,
Second Layer,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Walker Brothers,
Fad Gadget,
Ten City,
Slick Rick,
Basic Channel,
The Move,
The Pop Group,
Cheater Slicks,
Wasted Youth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Massinfluence,
Jimmy McGriff,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Donald Byrd,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Idris Muhammad,
Hasil Adkins,
The Doors,
The Vogues,
Blossom Toes,
the Normal,
Rhythm & Sound,
Neil Young,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sun Ra,
Skaos,
Bang On A Can,
Patti Smith,
Q and Not U,
OOIOO,
Throbbing Gristle,
Aswad,
B.T. Express,
Sparks,
Joyce Sims,
the Swans,
John Foxx,
James White and The Blacks,
Ossler,
Roy Ayers,
X-Ray Spex,
Silicon Teens,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pussy Galore,
ABC,
Can,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.