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 Argentina and from Jakarta.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Sun City Girls to the techno 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Nation of Ulysses,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
E-Dancer,
Con Funk Shun,
The Monks,
Terry Callier,
Echospace,
Drexciya,
Urselle,
Crime,
Hot Snakes,
Maurizio,
Sällskapet,
Rites of Spring,
Erykah Badu,
John Foxx,
The Shadows of Knight,
Agent Orange,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
F. McDonald,
Howard Jones,
Stiv Bators,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Searchers,
Ultra Naté,
Steve Hackett,
Rapeman,
Piero Umiliani,
Al Stewart,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Supertramp,
Suburban Knight,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fear,
The New Christs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Grass Roots,
Todd Rundgren,
Delta 5,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Magazine,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gabor Szabo,
Ronnie Foster,
Scratch Acid,
Eurythmics,
Wire,
The Cramps,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Music Machine,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sarah Menescal,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Yellowson,
Carl Craig,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sun Ra,
Deadbeat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.