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 Niger 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Winnipeg.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Niagra to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Index. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Letta Mbulu,
Royal Trux,
Duran Duran,
Marine Girls,
Index,
Roger Hodgson,
Byron Stingily,
Janne Schatter,
Interpol,
Surgeon,
Todd Rundgren,
Cluster,
Isaac Hayes,
Q65,
JFA,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roxette,
X-102,
Metal Thangz,
Radio Birdman,
Nik Kershaw,
Adolescents,
Blake Baxter,
The Moleskins,
the Germs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jeff Lynne,
Audionom,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Guru Guru,
Lou Reed,
The Raincoats,
Suicide,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nick Fraelich,
Nas,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Five Americans,
The Tremeloes,
Nico,
Toni Rubio,
Mary Jane Girls,
DJ Style,
The Residents,
Ornette Coleman,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Beau Brummels,
Godley & Creme,
Bootsy Collins,
Dave Gahan,
Yaz,
Bad Manners,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
La Düsseldorf,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Agitation Free,
Faust,
Depeche Mode,
The Mojo Men,
Brothers Johnson,
Chris Corsano,
The Smiths,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.