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 China and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Durutti Column to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Sonny Sharrock,
New Age Steppers,
Todd Rundgren,
The United States of America,
The Knickerbockers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Don Cherry,
Main Source,
a-ha,
Boredoms,
Mr. Review,
Pagans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bobby Sherman,
The Barracudas,
The Five Americans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Frankie Knuckles,
Throbbing Gristle,
The New Christs,
Mantronix,
Junior Murvin,
Matthew Bourne,
K-Klass,
These Immortal Souls,
Dennis Brown,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Idris Muhammad,
the Bar-Kays,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Archie Shepp,
Barbara Tucker,
Morten Harket,
Ultimate Spinach,
Neil Young,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jesper Dahlback,
Duran Duran,
Janne Schatter,
Inner City,
Easy Going,
Lee Hazlewood,
Isaac Hayes,
The Last Poets,
Trumans Water,
Television Personalities,
Radiohead,
Cameo,
The Fugs,
Pylon,
Amon Düül II,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
F. McDonald,
The Doobie Brothers,
Stiv Bators,
Spandau Ballet,
Spoonie Gee,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.