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 Oman and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ajijia Myrayebe to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Aloha Tigers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mandrill,
Crash Course in Science,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Five Americans,
The Fuzztones,
Talk Talk,
Reagan Youth,
DJ Sneak,
Chris & Cosey,
Eric Copeland,
The Skatalites,
Nico,
The Vogues,
The Mummies,
Junior Murvin,
Arab on Radar,
Ornette Coleman,
H. Thieme,
Tears for Fears,
Jacob Miller,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Knickerbockers,
Barry Ungar,
Peter and Kerry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Todd Terry,
Rufus Thomas,
Ronnie Foster,
Minny Pops,
Aswad,
The Techniques,
Glenn Branca,
Theoretical Girls,
Marine Girls,
Spandau Ballet,
Pierre Henry,
Sound Behaviour,
Cal Tjader,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Toni Rubio,
Bill Wells,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Fugazi,
Moby Grape,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Yellowson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
ABBA,
Kenny Larkin,
Cybotron,
Soulsonic Force,
Janne Schatter,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.