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 Indonesia and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 rhodes 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 Black Sheep to the crunk 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lakeside,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Alice Coltrane,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Idris Muhammad,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stockholm Monsters,
F. McDonald,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Warsaw,
One Last Wish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kurtis Blow,
Laurel Aitken,
Audionom,
The Angels of Light,
Kevin Saunderson,
The United States of America,
Cymande,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bobby Womack,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fat Boys,
Steve Hackett,
ABBA,
Rufus Thomas,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Fuzztones,
The Star Department,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter & Gordon,
Sandy B,
Minny Pops,
Gabor Szabo,
Ornette Coleman,
MDC,
Ultra Naté,
Bronski Beat,
Slave,
Eric B and Rakim,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
K-Klass,
The Zeros,
Lyres,
Adolescents,
Pantytec,
Faraquet,
Roy Ayers,
Henry Cow,
Tim Buckley,
John Holt,
Crash Course in Science,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Black Sheep,
Delon & Dalcan,
Severed Heads,
Underground Resistance,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.