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 Uzbekistan and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 guitar 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 Anakelly to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Arab on Radar,
Easy Going,
The Smiths,
Neil Young,
Crime,
Black Flag,
Model 500,
The Names,
Andrew Hill,
Black Sheep,
Kerri Chandler,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Litter,
The Toasters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roy Ayers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sun City Girls,
Whodini,
Franke,
Spandau Ballet,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Young Rascals,
the Swans,
Scott Walker,
Patti Smith,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ohio Players,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pierre Henry,
Marshall Jefferson,
Infiniti,
Siglo XX,
Kas Product,
Slick Rick,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
ABC,
Nation of Ulysses,
Chrome,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
John Cale,
The Cowsills,
The Real Kids,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cluster,
Sandy B,
Colin Newman,
Althea and Donna,
Reuben Wilson,
Electric Prunes,
Idris Muhammad,
Smog,
Albert Ayler,
Fluxion,
The Busters,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Birthday Party,
Matthew Bourne,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.