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 Cameroon and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Toni Rubio,
Negative Approach,
Circle Jerks,
The Move,
MC5,
Donald Byrd,
The Moody Blues,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sugar Minott,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mad Mike,
Ice-T,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mark Hollis,
Jeff Lynne,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Slave,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jandek,
Alphaville,
K-Klass,
The American Breed,
Oblivians,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yaz,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fatback Band,
Tom Boy,
Nas,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dead Boys,
Ludus,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Blancmange,
Ralphi Rosario,
Motorama,
Bush Tetras,
The Toasters,
The Seeds,
China Crisis,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gang Starr,
The Barracudas,
Girls At Our Best!,
Crispy Ambulance,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Normal,
Camouflage,
Davy DMX,
Stereo Dub,
Warsaw,
James White and The Blacks,
The Offenders,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Faust,
Anakelly,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.