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 Germany and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Massinfluence to the jazz 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Public Enemy,
Lou Christie,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pussy Galore,
Buzzcocks,
Gabor Szabo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tubeway Army,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Erasure,
The Star Department,
Sound Behaviour,
Boogie Down Productions,
Soul Sonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ornette Coleman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Beau Brummels,
Matthew Halsall,
Albert Ayler,
Ronnie Foster,
Inner City,
Negative Approach,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roxette,
Avey Tare,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
Clear Light,
the Swans,
Mr. Review,
Donny Hathaway,
PIL,
Ten City,
MDC,
kango's stein massive,
The Alarm Clocks,
Brass Construction,
Funky Four + One,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radiohead,
Zero Boys,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Simply Red,
The Skatalites,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eurythmics,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Gories,
The Stooges,
Nik Kershaw,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wasted Youth,
Suburban Knight,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC.
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.