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 Morocco and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 spring reverb 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 Joensuu 1685 to the techno 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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DNA,
The Toasters,
The Residents,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sam Rivers,
Fugazi,
Erasure,
Funky Four + One,
Derrick Morgan,
Glenn Branca,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
John Foxx,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Alarm Clocks,
Unwound,
Glambeats Corp.,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
X-101,
Black Moon,
Theoretical Girls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Sound,
Amon Düül II,
Soulsonic Force,
The Seeds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Invisible,
The Moleskins,
Joy Division,
Pole,
The Velvet Underground,
F. McDonald,
Zapp,
Eli Mardock,
Lightning Bolt,
Junior Murvin,
Heaven 17,
Schoolly D,
Vainqueur,
The Tremeloes,
Rekid,
The Monochrome Set,
Henry Cow,
Rites of Spring,
Neu!,
Grey Daturas,
Derrick May,
Matthew Bourne,
Soul II Soul,
T.S.O.L.,
X-Ray Spex,
Cameo,
Sight & Sound,
cv313,
Gabor Szabo,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eden Ahbez,
the Normal,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.