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 Chile and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 linndrum 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 Jacques Brel to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arcadia,
Bootsy Collins,
Urselle,
Bronski Beat,
Letta Mbulu,
Hoover,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Christie,
Juan Atkins,
Boz Scaggs,
The Gories,
The Knickerbockers,
Idris Muhammad,
The Busters,
Blake Baxter,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Soft Machine,
Minutemen,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Red Krayola,
Metal Thangz,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Derrick May,
B.T. Express,
Con Funk Shun,
Groovy Waters,
ABBA,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rekid,
Judy Mowatt,
Tomorrow,
Make Up,
Absolute Body Control,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Move,
Fad Gadget,
Intrusion,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Animal Collective,
DJ Style,
Subhumans,
Drexciya,
Grey Daturas,
John Foxx,
Funky Four + One,
Cybotron,
Wings,
Deakin,
Dorothy Ashby,
Delta 5,
Ohio Players,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Blossom Toes,
OOIOO,
Echospace,
Laurel Aitken,
Nick Fraelich,
John Holt,
L. Decosne,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.