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 Togo and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pantytec to the grunge 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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Youth Brigade,
Essential Logic,
The Selecter,
Groovy Waters,
The Pretty Things,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sarah Menescal,
John Holt,
DNA,
Quando Quango,
Clear Light,
The Victims,
K-Klass,
Brothers Johnson,
Minutemen,
Lucky Dragons,
Pharoah Sanders,
La Düsseldorf,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nils Olav,
Mo-Dettes,
Pantytec,
Robert Hood,
Ossler,
Arcadia,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Monolake,
Bad Manners,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Raincoats,
Sugar Minott,
Sam Rivers,
Arab on Radar,
The Blackbyrds,
Stereo Dub,
Laurel Aitken,
John Foxx,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Barrington Levy,
Albert Ayler,
New Order,
Sonic Youth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mark Hollis,
Nico,
Slave,
Hasil Adkins,
Unrelated Segments,
Soul Sonic Force,
Shoche,
Robert Wyatt,
Saccharine Trust,
The Electric Prunes,
Gabor Szabo,
Tomorrow,
the Swans,
Zero Boys,
Aural Exciters,
Hoover,
Boogie Down Productions,
Don Cherry,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.