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 Mali and from Lyon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Guru Guru to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Pagans,
Ornette Coleman,
Panda Bear,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Buckinghams,
the Association,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
ABC,
Soft Machine,
Idris Muhammad,
The Wake,
Andrew Hill,
Dave Gahan,
Simply Red,
The Gories,
A Certain Ratio,
Yaz,
Royal Trux,
Lalann,
Wire,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lucky Dragons,
Public Enemy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jerry's Kids,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Blossom Toes,
Inner City,
Boz Scaggs,
Marc Almond,
Roger Hodgson,
Dual Sessions,
Malaria!,
Johnny Clarke,
Agitation Free,
The Golliwogs,
The Cramps,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Flag,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fluxion,
The Count Five,
The Slackers,
Vladislav Delay,
Crooked Eye,
Can,
U.S. Maple,
Nils Olav,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Robert Wyatt,
Eurythmics,
Robert Görl,
Q65,
Joyce Sims,
Mad Mike,
The Moleskins,
Mark Hollis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Neil Young,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.