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 Mauritius and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 clarinet 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 Todd Terry to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Ice-T,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pantaleimon,
B.T. Express,
Yusef Lateef,
Reagan Youth,
Jeff Lynne,
Pole,
Stetsasonic,
Anakelly,
Sound Behaviour,
The Beau Brummels,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Guru Guru,
Unrelated Segments,
The Black Dice,
Dave Gahan,
Susan Cadogan,
Gang Green,
The Divine Comedy,
Organ,
Skaos,
Aswad,
Janne Schatter,
Banda Bassotti,
Section 25,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lou Reed,
Y Pants,
Tom Boy,
This Heat,
Surgeon,
Matthew Bourne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Josef K,
Marmalade,
Animal Collective,
The Stooges,
The Human League,
Eli Mardock,
The Skatalites,
Black Sheep,
The Tremeloes,
Little Man,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Roxy Music,
Jesper Dahlback,
Connie Case,
the Swans,
Skarface,
Zero Boys,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Television,
The Blues Magoos,
Tears for Fears,
Urselle, Urselle, Urselle, Urselle.
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.