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 Papua New Guinea and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Avey Tare to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Mission of Burma,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bad Manners,
Easy Going,
Donald Byrd,
the Association,
Simply Red,
X-Ray Spex,
Reuben Wilson,
Joensuu 1685,
Urselle,
The Associates,
Rosa Yemen,
Ultimate Spinach,
Clear Light,
The Toasters,
Tom Boy,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Offenders,
Terry Callier,
The Fugs,
Popol Vuh,
Visage,
Man Parrish,
Dawn Penn,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Selecter,
Funky Four + One,
Wire,
Drexciya,
Lightning Bolt,
Tubeway Army,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Das Ding,
Zapp,
Black Flag,
Kerri Chandler,
Rekid,
the Sonics,
Young Marble Giants,
Sun City Girls,
Von Mondo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Mars,
Adolescents,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Q and Not U,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pylon,
Sparks,
The Saints,
The Seeds,
Aural Exciters,
Rufus Thomas,
Todd Rundgren,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pole,
New Age Steppers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Magazine,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.