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 Palau and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 oboe 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 CMW to the dance 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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stetsasonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arcadia,
Chris Corsano,
Altered Images,
AZ,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fluxion,
Harmonia,
Intrusion,
Marcia Griffiths,
Laurel Aitken,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Panda Bear,
KRS-One,
Robert Görl,
Section 25,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Television Personalities,
Nik Kershaw,
The New Christs,
X-101,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Monks,
Henry Cow,
Magma,
Country Teasers,
FM Einheit,
Monks,
Agent Orange,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Slick Rick,
Roy Ayers,
The Sonics,
Swell Maps,
Girls At Our Best!,
Amazonics,
Newcleus,
Neil Young,
Lou Reed,
The Trojans,
Minor Threat,
Symarip,
Cheater Slicks,
Theoretical Girls,
Black Flag,
Eden Ahbez,
Agitation Free,
Shuggie Otis,
H. Thieme,
Stereo Dub,
Masters at Work,
These Immortal Souls,
Hardrive,
the Germs,
June of 44,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jimmy McGriff,
OOIOO,
Kas Product,
Michelle Simonal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Smooth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Babytalk,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.