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 Micronesia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the grime 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 Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Evens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ponytail,
Stiv Bators,
Mission of Burma,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Stockholm Monsters,
Adolescents,
Con Funk Shun,
Shoche,
The Pop Group,
MC5,
Alison Limerick,
Rakim,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Spoonie Gee,
Altered Images,
Circle Jerks,
Rufus Thomas,
Sugar Minott,
The Monochrome Set,
Arcadia,
the Normal,
Q and Not U,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kaleidoscope,
Wally Richardson,
the Slits,
Minnie Riperton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Guru Guru,
Eric Dolphy,
Joy Division,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Neil Young,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Techniques,
Wings,
Tres Demented,
Fad Gadget,
Jeff Mills,
Parry Music,
Monolake,
Ultravox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Supertramp,
June of 44,
the Bar-Kays,
F. McDonald,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eli Mardock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ice-T,
Robert Hood,
The New Christs,
Average White Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Aaron Thompson,
The Mummies,
Charles Mingus,
Cymande,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.