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 Fiji and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 mellotron 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 Sound Behaviour to the crunk 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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going 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 arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Tres Demented,
Albert Ayler,
The Doors,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Mummies,
Symarip,
The Names,
Anthony Braxton,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Smoke,
The Grass Roots,
Banda Bassotti,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Roy Ayers,
Derrick Morgan,
Neu!,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Real Kids,
Michelle Simonal,
Gastr Del Sol,
DJ Style,
Procol Harum,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Happenings,
Babytalk,
Q and Not U,
China Crisis,
Sight & Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
Rotary Connection,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Arab on Radar,
Peter & Gordon,
Bluetip,
Ronan,
Talk Talk,
Metal Thangz,
Minnie Riperton,
Graham Central Station,
Deepchord,
Ken Boothe,
Surgeon,
The Fuzztones,
David McCallum,
Terrestrial Tones,
Tommy Roe,
cv313,
Pantytec,
Delta 5,
Bill Near,
Yusef Lateef,
Das Ding,
Audionom,
Accadde A,
Roxy Music,
Yaz,
Cluster,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.