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 Vanuatu and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Gichy Dan,
Youth Brigade,
Mo-Dettes,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pylon,
Animal Collective,
Arcadia,
Soft Cell,
Todd Terry,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rosa Yemen,
Duran Duran,
the Normal,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Panda Bear,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Wings,
Sparks,
Albert Ayler,
The Durutti Column,
Moby Grape,
Charles Mingus,
Minny Pops,
Inner City,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jimmy McGriff,
ABC,
Mark Hollis,
Crime,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gabor Szabo,
June of 44,
Dennis Brown,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Joensuu 1685,
Guru Guru,
Soulsonic Force,
The Evens,
Ituana,
Johnny Clarke,
Visage,
Sugar Minott,
Make Up,
Freddie Wadling,
Anakelly,
The Gap Band,
Zapp,
Brothers Johnson,
Camberwell Now,
The Cowsills,
48th St. Collective,
The Zeros,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Moebius,
Dorothy Ashby,
Flamin' Groovies,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.