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 Suriname 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator 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 Slits to the punk 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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Todd Terry,
Con Funk Shun,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Letta Mbulu,
Nico,
Liliput,
Dual Sessions,
Marine Girls,
Little Man,
The Fall,
Kevin Saunderson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cluster,
The Associates,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Barrington Levy,
The Knickerbockers,
Quando Quango,
The Leaves,
Faust,
Fela Kuti,
Judy Mowatt,
Brick,
T. Rex,
Smog,
Mission of Burma,
Shoche,
Yaz,
Agitation Free,
Todd Rundgren,
Robert Görl,
Bobbi Humphrey,
CMW,
Mo-Dettes,
Lou Christie,
Lalann,
The Move,
AZ,
the Human League,
Derrick May,
Quadrant,
X-101,
10cc,
Rakim,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Simply Red,
Kayak,
Byron Stingily,
The Invisible,
Roxy Music,
Khruangbin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Durutti Column,
Hashim,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kaleidoscope,
Stiv Bators,
Patti Smith,
Loose Ends,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.