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 Antigua and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the sitar 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 MC5 to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Camberwell Now,
The Electric Prunes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Young Rascals,
The Cramps,
Soulsonic Force,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Blake Baxter,
Lalo Schifrin,
Accadde A,
Radiohead,
The Flesh Eaters,
Charles Mingus,
The Wake,
Supertramp,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Scratch Acid,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nation of Ulysses,
Panda Bear,
Minnie Riperton,
Heaven 17,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roxette,
Darondo,
These Immortal Souls,
Sun City Girls,
Qualms,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eddi Front,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kevin Saunderson,
Aloha Tigers,
Glenn Branca,
Ultra Naté,
The Slits,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Foxx,
Wally Richardson,
Ralphi Rosario,
Make Up,
DNA,
Reuben Wilson,
Oblivians,
Sarah Menescal,
Kurtis Blow,
Underground Resistance,
Suburban Knight,
Neu!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yellowson,
Cluster,
KRS-One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Guru Guru,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.