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 Vietnam and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Buckinghams to the electroclash 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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Skriet,
Johnny Clarke,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ralphi Rosario,
Von Mondo,
DJ Style,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bobby Byrd,
D'Angelo,
Basic Channel,
Nas,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sexual Harrassment,
Goldenarms,
Intrusion,
Moss Icon,
The Star Department,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Soul II Soul,
Icehouse,
Soul Sonic Force,
Leonard Cohen,
Brass Construction,
Sixth Finger,
Tim Buckley,
The Count Five,
Robert Wyatt,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lebanon Hanover,
Junior Murvin,
Freddie Wadling,
E-Dancer,
Matthew Bourne,
kango's stein massive,
Warsaw,
Make Up,
Yazoo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
X-101,
Tears for Fears,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Television Personalities,
Youth Brigade,
Young Marble Giants,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joyce Sims,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
New Order,
The Gap Band,
Model 500,
Heaven 17,
The Gories,
Funky Four + One,
Bizarre Inc.,
Spoonie Gee,
Joe Smooth,
48th St. Collective,
Sound Behaviour,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.