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 New Zealand and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 güiro 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 The Smoke to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Funky Four + One,
Ponytail,
The Names,
Graham Central Station,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cecil Taylor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tres Demented,
Carl Craig,
Laurel Aitken,
B.T. Express,
Isaac Hayes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
kango's stein massive,
Sex Pistols,
The Real Kids,
Ossler,
Connie Case,
Todd Rundgren,
Wolf Eyes,
Groovy Waters,
Deadbeat,
The Associates,
Soft Cell,
The Neon Judgement,
Brass Construction,
Lou Reed,
Robert Hood,
Peter & Gordon,
Ronnie Foster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joe Smooth,
Hoover,
Piero Umiliani,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Albert Ayler,
The Mummies,
Bobby Sherman,
Skarface,
Scott Walker,
Ultravox,
Severed Heads,
Terry Callier,
Peter and Kerry,
Magazine,
John Foxx,
Gang Starr,
Stiv Bators,
The Seeds,
Rod Modell,
Aural Exciters,
The Happenings,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Moleskins,
Nas,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Searchers,
Gang of Four,
New Age Steppers,
Radiohead,
The Smoke,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.