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 Finland and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Joyce Sims to the rock 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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fugazi,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Y Pants,
Icehouse,
Q65,
The Real Kids,
Funky Four + One,
Hoover,
the Bar-Kays,
Matthew Bourne,
The Durutti Column,
The Electric Prunes,
Andrew Hill,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fall,
The Barracudas,
Newcleus,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Germs,
Derrick May,
Banda Bassotti,
Mary Jane Girls,
Magazine,
Lou Christie,
China Crisis,
Qualms,
World's Most,
Sister Nancy,
David Bowie,
Delta 5,
Soft Cell,
Todd Terry,
The Index,
Scrapy,
Derrick Morgan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Monks,
Leonard Cohen,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pagans,
The Misunderstood,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Blues Magoos,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sarah Menescal,
The Smiths,
New Age Steppers,
Fela Kuti,
The Blackbyrds,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Move,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Monochrome Set,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sandy B,
David Axelrod,
Eric Copeland,
A Certain Ratio,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
New Order,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.