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 Andorra and from Accra.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Cameo to the rap 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 Cabaret Voltaire. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Sound Behaviour,
Danielle Patucci,
The Skatalites,
Von Mondo,
The Doors,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
PIL,
Sun Ra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
John Holt,
Bootsy Collins,
The United States of America,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cymande,
Funky Four + One,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Section 25,
Gang Starr,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Make Up,
Trumans Water,
The Zeros,
Stiv Bators,
The Blackbyrds,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Clear Light,
Frankie Knuckles,
Yazoo,
John Foxx,
Kas Product,
Cameo,
Darondo,
Zapp,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Modern Lovers,
The Invisible,
Tubeway Army,
Saccharine Trust,
Jimmy McGriff,
Todd Rundgren,
The Martian,
Amon Düül II,
Colin Newman,
Dual Sessions,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pantaleimon,
Blancmange,
Deepchord,
Bob Dylan,
The Smiths,
Minor Threat,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gladiators,
Mission of Burma,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hoover,
Monks, Monks, Monks, Monks.
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.