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 Benin and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin 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 Excepter to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siglo XX 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?
Eric Dolphy,
Make Up,
Saccharine Trust,
The Sound,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Human League,
Boogie Down Productions,
Organ,
Funkadelic,
The Raincoats,
Masters at Work,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pierre Henry,
Subhumans,
Inner City,
The Moody Blues,
Piero Umiliani,
Agitation Free,
D'Angelo,
Royal Trux,
New York Dolls,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
EPMD,
The Zeros,
Scion,
Isaac Hayes,
Mad Mike,
Pharoah Sanders,
Depeche Mode,
ABBA,
Guru Guru,
The Smoke,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Swell Maps,
Roxette,
Gang Starr,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eli Mardock,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Yellowson,
Arab on Radar,
Lower 48,
Derrick Morgan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Reagan Youth,
Johnny Osbourne,
Charles Mingus,
Barbara Tucker,
Ultra Naté,
John Cale,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Jeff Mills,
Oblivians,
Eurythmics,
UT,
Alton Ellis,
The Associates,
Fluxion,
Minutemen,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.