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 Canada and from Paris.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Selecter to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fall,
Tres Demented,
Inner City,
The Slackers,
Gregory Isaacs,
The United States of America,
Fad Gadget,
Tropical Tobacco,
Icehouse,
Barbara Tucker,
Erykah Badu,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Electric Prunes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Suicide,
Lou Reed,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Piero Umiliani,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Moody Blues,
Joey Negro,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nirvana,
a-ha,
Grey Daturas,
Talk Talk,
The Mojo Men,
Nik Kershaw,
Trumans Water,
Brand Nubian,
Half Japanese,
Kas Product,
Flamin' Groovies,
Visage,
Spoonie Gee,
Alison Limerick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Siglo XX,
Easy Going,
Dennis Brown,
Judy Mowatt,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rapeman,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Neon Judgement,
The Martian,
The Techniques,
Ludus,
Essential Logic,
Panda Bear,
Delta 5,
Quantec,
The Victims,
Rakim,
Whodini,
Avey Tare,
Skriet,
Section 25,
Index,
Gang Green,
Jeff Lynne,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Anakelly,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.