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 Slovenia and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Donny Hathaway to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Faust,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Toni Rubio,
Q65,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Second Layer,
the Normal,
Pantaleimon,
Symarip,
The Index,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rufus Thomas,
Lou Christie,
KRS-One,
Deepchord,
Gong,
Matthew Bourne,
Swans,
Echospace,
MC5,
Soul II Soul,
Goldenarms,
Eric Copeland,
Sparks,
Junior Murvin,
Audionom,
Kerri Chandler,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lungfish,
Das Ding,
The Vogues,
Mad Mike,
Monolake,
Arcadia,
Crash Course in Science,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hasil Adkins,
The Offenders,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rakim,
Johnny Osbourne,
Flash Fearless,
Cecil Taylor,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Birthday Party,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Trumans Water,
Delta 5,
Barclay James Harvest,
Japan,
T.S.O.L.,
Fad Gadget,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
A Certain Ratio,
Tom Boy,
Isaac Hayes,
Funky Four + One,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.