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 Namibia and from Milan.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 Carl Craig to the techno 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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
Amazonics,
Gong,
Alice Coltrane,
E-Dancer,
Lalo Schifrin,
Oneida,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bootsy Collins,
Gichy Dan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pagans,
Barrington Levy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Quadrant,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Harmonia,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Stereo Dub,
Dual Sessions,
The Shadows of Knight,
Funky Four + One,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Graham Central Station,
Harry Pussy,
Interpol,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sugar Minott,
The Buckinghams,
In Retrospect,
The Dave Clark Five,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pharoah Sanders,
Crispy Ambulance,
UT,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mr. Review,
The Monochrome Set,
Scion,
The Star Department,
Radiohead,
Skarface,
Roxette,
Metal Thangz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jacob Miller,
Rhythm & Sound,
New York Dolls,
Lyres,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Peter and Kerry,
Minor Threat,
Eric B and Rakim,
Skriet,
Juan Atkins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Magazine,
Intrusion,
Idris Muhammad,
The Tremeloes,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.