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 Jordan and from Sao Paulo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum 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 FM Einheit to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
Sound Behaviour,
Vainqueur,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Model 500,
Bush Tetras,
Sparks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
U.S. Maple,
Japan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gichy Dan,
The Standells,
The Names,
The Evens,
Lucky Dragons,
Derrick May,
Schoolly D,
The Knickerbockers,
Oblivians,
Public Image Ltd.,
Roxy Music,
DNA,
Robert Wyatt,
L. Decosne,
Sarah Menescal,
Radiohead,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Bobby Byrd,
Desert Stars,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jandek,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Heaven 17,
Glenn Branca,
Malaria!,
Nils Olav,
Negative Approach,
Motorama,
Crispian St. Peters,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bronski Beat,
Matthew Halsall,
Cybotron,
Popol Vuh,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cramps,
Jacques Brel,
T.S.O.L.,
Duran Duran,
Ten City,
The Invisible,
The Last Poets,
Sandy B,
Section 25,
The Five Americans,
Half Japanese,
Black Pus,
The Smiths,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.