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 Cyprus and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the güiro 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 Roger Hodgson to the dance 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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Sister Nancy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Graham Central Station,
The Barracudas,
Mark Hollis,
Al Stewart,
One Last Wish,
Bronski Beat,
LL Cool J,
Supertramp,
Radiopuhelimet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Khruangbin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harmonia,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fear,
The Star Department,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pantaleimon,
The Mojo Men,
Carl Craig,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Derrick May,
Wire,
Basic Channel,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dead Boys,
T.S.O.L.,
Electric Prunes,
Ohio Players,
The Skatalites,
Donald Byrd,
The Names,
The Blackbyrds,
The Monochrome Set,
Barry Ungar,
New Order,
Johnny Osbourne,
Cheater Slicks,
Iggy Pop,
The Trojans,
Camberwell Now,
Jimmy McGriff,
Buzzcocks,
The Tremeloes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Animal Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Guru Guru,
Roxette,
Bang On A Can,
Black Moon,
John Holt,
Agent Orange,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang of Four,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.