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 Russia and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Woodstock.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Mantronix to the dance 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rod Modell,
Sexual Harrassment,
Young Marble Giants,
Eli Mardock,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tommy Roe,
Harmonia,
Dawn Penn,
LL Cool J,
Reagan Youth,
Hashim,
Qualms,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bad Manners,
Juan Atkins,
Barbara Tucker,
Wire,
Iggy Pop,
The Dave Clark Five,
Howard Jones,
Davy DMX,
KRS-One,
Alice Coltrane,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Robert Wyatt,
Cybotron,
Wings,
OOIOO,
Sun City Girls,
Slick Rick,
Altered Images,
David Bowie,
Chris & Cosey,
Barry Ungar,
Von Mondo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ituana,
Saccharine Trust,
Smog,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Golliwogs,
The Happenings,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pulsallama,
PIL,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Shuggie Otis,
Slave,
Moby Grape,
Oblivians,
Deepchord,
Isaac Hayes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gap Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lungfish,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.