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 Cape Verde and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Skatalites to the crunk 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 Germs. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kool Moe Dee,
Animal Collective,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sparks,
Masters at Work,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lindisfarne,
Whodini,
The Saints,
Crime,
Marmalade,
The Techniques,
The Angels of Light,
Youth Brigade,
Sam Rivers,
Andrew Hill,
Negative Approach,
The Fire Engines,
Electric Prunes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jesper Dahlback,
Derrick May,
Hardrive,
DJ Style,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Cure,
Donald Byrd,
Nils Olav,
Carl Craig,
Bobby Byrd,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Amon Düül,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Johnny Clarke,
Gong,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gabor Szabo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Blancmange,
Jandek,
Bauhaus,
Mandrill,
a-ha,
Jacob Miller,
Liliput,
Rotary Connection,
Suburban Knight,
Cameo,
Pulsallama,
Ten City,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pierre Henry,
Peter & Gordon,
Soft Machine,
the Germs,
Basic Channel,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.