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 Tuvalu and from Paris.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Patti Smith to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All Mars 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers 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?
a-ha,
ABC,
Simply Red,
Anthony Braxton,
Von Mondo,
The Fall,
Visage,
The Gories,
Chris Corsano,
Patti Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Todd Rundgren,
The Modern Lovers,
Symarip,
Lightning Bolt,
Rites of Spring,
Lebanon Hanover,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Barrington Levy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Kinks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nas,
Model 500,
T.S.O.L.,
Grey Daturas,
Lalann,
Dead Boys,
Judy Mowatt,
Bronski Beat,
The Dave Clark Five,
Slave,
Ornette Coleman,
Roxette,
Mark Hollis,
Warsaw,
Bill Near,
Bob Dylan,
Guru Guru,
F. McDonald,
The Tremeloes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pagans,
The Count Five,
Kerrie Biddell,
David Axelrod,
Yazoo,
World's Most,
The Young Rascals,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Reuben Wilson,
Ten City,
Average White Band,
Magazine,
The Skatalites,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jeff Mills,
Blancmange,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.