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 Afghanistan and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Salvador.
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 snare 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 Flipper to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions 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?
MC5,
Sandy B,
The Fire Engines,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Seeds,
Pantaleimon,
Slave,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Con Funk Shun,
Rekid,
The Trojans,
Shoche,
In Retrospect,
Gong,
The Flesh Eaters,
Matthew Bourne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hoover,
DNA,
ABBA,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Funky Four + One,
H. Thieme,
Ornette Coleman,
The Walker Brothers,
Zapp,
Procol Harum,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lungfish,
Brick,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rotary Connection,
Supertramp,
Faraquet,
Ponytail,
Underground Resistance,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Godley & Creme,
Marvin Gaye,
Letta Mbulu,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Aloha Tigers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fat Boys,
Livin' Joy,
Ossler,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Tim Buckley,
Lyres,
Curtis Mayfield,
Unwound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Yusef Lateef,
Gastr Del Sol,
Arthur Verocai,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Association,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.