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 Burundi and from Stockholm.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Lebanon Hanover to the rap 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barry Ungar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Circle Jerks,
The Walker Brothers,
Laurel Aitken,
Idris Muhammad,
Joyce Sims,
Todd Terry,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
World's Most,
Oneida,
Fatback Band,
LL Cool J,
Television,
Urselle,
Monolake,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Wasted Youth,
Eden Ahbez,
Flash Fearless,
The Angels of Light,
Gang Gang Dance,
Arcadia,
Scientists,
Bill Near,
Ossler,
Quadrant,
Darondo,
Saccharine Trust,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fuzztones,
FM Einheit,
EPMD,
MC5,
Skriet,
The Motions,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Birthday Party,
Sound Behaviour,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Gories,
Japan,
Yellowson,
The Flesh Eaters,
Icehouse,
Eve St. Jones,
Chris Corsano,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Toni Rubio,
Josef K,
The Modern Lovers,
Surgeon,
Black Sheep,
Delta 5,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Intrusion,
Suburban Knight,
Sex Pistols,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.