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 France and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Winnipeg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 808 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 Babytalk to the disco 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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Derrick Morgan,
Sun City Girls,
Tom Boy,
Carl Craig,
Intrusion,
Pylon,
The Martian,
Boogie Down Productions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Slits,
Ronan,
Young Marble Giants,
The Stooges,
Nirvana,
Rod Modell,
Harmonia,
Amon Düül,
The Searchers,
Funky Four + One,
Wire,
Aural Exciters,
The Zeros,
Chris & Cosey,
Sixth Finger,
Roy Ayers,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Albert Ayler,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Funkadelic,
Letta Mbulu,
Junior Murvin,
The Offenders,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pussy Galore,
Basic Channel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Crispian St. Peters,
Toni Rubio,
Bad Manners,
The Grass Roots,
Black Bananas,
Yaz,
Silicon Teens,
Crooked Eye,
The Alarm Clocks,
CMW,
Peter & Gordon,
Spandau Ballet,
Swell Maps,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pulsallama,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lakeside,
The Dirtbombs,
Delon & Dalcan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neil Young,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.