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 El Salvador and from Mexico City.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the crunk 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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Faraquet,
Avey Tare,
Lightning Bolt,
Crime,
Derrick May,
The Motions,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Monolake,
The Misunderstood,
Anakelly,
The Pretty Things,
The Black Dice,
Big Daddy Kane,
Thompson Twins,
The Happenings,
D'Angelo,
The Dead C,
The American Breed,
Fad Gadget,
The Human League,
Bob Dylan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
cv313,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
UT,
Banda Bassotti,
Outsiders,
Joe Finger,
LL Cool J,
The United States of America,
Ten City,
Jesper Dahlback,
In Retrospect,
Surgeon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Blake Baxter,
Amon Düül II,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Royal Trux,
Kayak,
Althea and Donna,
Animal Collective,
Suburban Knight,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bang On A Can,
Josef K,
Fear,
Juan Atkins,
kango's stein massive,
Gichy Dan,
Isaac Hayes,
The Gun Club,
The Zeros,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.