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 Ecuador 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Yaz to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Pantytec,
X-101,
Joy Division,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
A Certain Ratio,
Wally Richardson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Harpers Bizarre,
Janne Schatter,
Crooked Eye,
Roy Ayers,
Jacques Brel,
Quantec,
MC5,
Bronski Beat,
Adolescents,
Accadde A,
Clear Light,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Patti Smith,
Nation of Ulysses,
Royal Trux,
The Stooges,
Mary Jane Girls,
Amazonics,
Icehouse,
The Star Department,
Y Pants,
Sparks,
Talk Talk,
Mars,
Vladislav Delay,
Banda Bassotti,
Procol Harum,
Reagan Youth,
Fela Kuti,
Minor Threat,
Sun City Girls,
Brick,
Jandek,
Section 25,
Television Personalities,
Audionom,
Das Ding,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dual Sessions,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tears for Fears,
Infiniti,
Pagans,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gap Band,
Camouflage,
Groovy Waters,
ABBA,
Au Pairs,
Warsaw,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Country Teasers,
Main Source,
Albert Ayler,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.