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 Tuvalu and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar 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 Yellowson to the jazz 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
The Divine Comedy,
The J.B.'s,
Hasil Adkins,
The United States of America,
Pere Ubu,
The Human League,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Alison Limerick,
The Misunderstood,
Alice Coltrane,
Dorothy Ashby,
In Retrospect,
Joe Finger,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ohio Players,
Motorama,
Q and Not U,
The Sound,
Outsiders,
Altered Images,
Nils Olav,
OOIOO,
Terry Callier,
Roger Hodgson,
Radiohead,
The Last Poets,
Minnie Riperton,
the Germs,
Bauhaus,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joey Negro,
UT,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Talk Talk,
Anthony Braxton,
the Association,
Cluster,
Lindisfarne,
the Sonics,
Graham Central Station,
the Slits,
Moby Grape,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Al Stewart,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Trojans,
A Certain Ratio,
X-102,
Aaron Thompson,
JFA,
Lou Christie,
Deadbeat,
Stiv Bators,
Sarah Menescal,
Slick Rick,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bang On A Can,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.