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 Malaysia and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Minnie Riperton to the disco 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 the Germs. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Pretty Things,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Erykah Badu,
Janne Schatter,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bootsy Collins,
Sun Ra,
Outsiders,
Funky Four + One,
John Foxx,
a-ha,
The Pop Group,
Marvin Gaye,
Q and Not U,
Heaven 17,
Reagan Youth,
Sun City Girls,
The Invisible,
Donny Hathaway,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gong,
Letta Mbulu,
Black Bananas,
Eddi Front,
Dawn Penn,
Boz Scaggs,
Alison Limerick,
Goldenarms,
Jeff Lynne,
Barclay James Harvest,
Aloha Tigers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gil Scott Heron,
Make Up,
The Index,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bush Tetras,
Vainqueur,
The Electric Prunes,
Lungfish,
Franke,
Anthony Braxton,
Con Funk Shun,
Joey Negro,
Altered Images,
The Alarm Clocks,
Donald Byrd,
The Tremeloes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Average White Band,
Moss Icon,
Urselle,
Trumans Water,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Robert Hood,
Bill Near,
Kenny Larkin,
Jacques Brel,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.