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 Korea South and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 güiro 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mary Jane Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Fad Gadget,
Mars,
Simply Red,
Faraquet,
Ultimate Spinach,
Chris Corsano,
Fear,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marine Girls,
Sun Ra,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rotary Connection,
Man Parrish,
Reuben Wilson,
Joensuu 1685,
The Knickerbockers,
Moebius,
The Martian,
Lou Christie,
Tres Demented,
Sight & Sound,
The Leaves,
Matthew Halsall,
Trumans Water,
The Victims,
ABC,
The Fire Engines,
The Doobie Brothers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Half Japanese,
The Skatalites,
Susan Cadogan,
Sällskapet,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Wings,
The Durutti Column,
Amazonics,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cluster,
Thompson Twins,
the Bar-Kays,
Can,
Sun City Girls,
Supertramp,
Ornette Coleman,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kurtis Blow,
Fatback Band,
Vainqueur,
Zero Boys,
Slave,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
In Retrospect,
The Buckinghams,
Johnny Clarke,
OOIOO,
Deakin,
AZ,
Ituana,
Harry Pussy,
Skarface,
The Angels of Light,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.