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 Japan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 linndrum 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 Roy Ayers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Sex Pistols tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Porter Ricks,
Oblivians,
The Durutti Column,
Pharoah Sanders,
Anakelly,
Bluetip,
Television Personalities,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gichy Dan,
Leonard Cohen,
Monks,
Wire,
Grauzone,
Mission of Burma,
Bootsy Collins,
Nick Fraelich,
Bill Near,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Y Pants,
The Cramps,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rakim,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kevin Saunderson,
T.S.O.L.,
Donald Byrd,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Buckinghams,
Mark Hollis,
Henry Cow,
One Last Wish,
World's Most,
Blossom Toes,
Wolf Eyes,
The Standells,
Babytalk,
Alton Ellis,
Schoolly D,
In Retrospect,
Morten Harket,
The Electric Prunes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nirvana,
Piero Umiliani,
Bizarre Inc.,
Television,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
JFA,
The Fall,
The Invisible,
Glambeats Corp.,
Depeche Mode,
The Index,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eurythmics,
Gil Scott Heron,
Boz Scaggs,
Marvin Gaye,
Outsiders,
Gong, Gong, Gong, Gong.
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.