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 Lebanon and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Moby Grape to the jazz 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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heaven 17,
Hasil Adkins,
The Angels of Light,
Scratch Acid,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Talk Talk,
Gregory Isaacs,
Funkadelic,
Delta 5,
Monks,
Marvin Gaye,
Japan,
Y Pants,
Ice-T,
Gichy Dan,
Pussy Galore,
The Techniques,
Blossom Toes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deadbeat,
The Slackers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fatback Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cal Tjader,
Laurel Aitken,
Skarface,
Ronan,
Lebanon Hanover,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Second Layer,
Blake Baxter,
cv313,
The American Breed,
Gil Scott Heron,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris Corsano,
Crime,
Fluxion,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Radiohead,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Erasure,
Charles Mingus,
Boogie Down Productions,
Technova,
Neu!,
The Doors,
Electric Prunes,
Lou Christie,
Sandy B,
Dead Boys,
The Pop Group,
Fat Boys,
Livin' Joy,
Harmonia,
JFA,
Prince Buster,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.