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 Japan and from New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Theoretical Girls to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
June of 44,
Black Pus,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scrapy,
Von Mondo,
Minor Threat,
John Foxx,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mission of Burma,
Minny Pops,
Trumans Water,
The Toasters,
The Pretty Things,
Brass Construction,
LL Cool J,
The Star Department,
Con Funk Shun,
Ronan,
Glambeats Corp.,
D'Angelo,
Visage,
Chris & Cosey,
Quando Quango,
The Monochrome Set,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fatback Band,
Eric Copeland,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nas,
Ten City,
Silicon Teens,
The Red Krayola,
Newcleus,
Dual Sessions,
Glenn Branca,
The Cramps,
Leonard Cohen,
Pharoah Sanders,
Reagan Youth,
Magma,
Youth Brigade,
Sonny Sharrock,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Underground Resistance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pole,
The Moleskins,
Judy Mowatt,
The Count Five,
Marine Girls,
Michelle Simonal,
the Swans,
Deepchord,
Shuggie Otis,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.