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 Estonia and from Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 oboe 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 a-ha to the electroclash 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Agitation Free,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delta 5,
A Certain Ratio,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ronan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Animal Collective,
Morten Harket,
The Remains,
Bill Wells,
Sarah Menescal,
June of 44,
Boz Scaggs,
The Mummies,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Spoonie Gee,
Grauzone,
the Sonics,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fad Gadget,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Excepter,
Reagan Youth,
Dennis Brown,
Cheater Slicks,
Technova,
Underground Resistance,
Eric B and Rakim,
Shoche,
Byron Stingily,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Talk Talk,
Flamin' Groovies,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
a-ha,
Monolake,
Harpers Bizarre,
Agent Orange,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
10cc,
Blancmange,
Sound Behaviour,
L. Decosne,
Subhumans,
Saccharine Trust,
Derrick May,
Sex Pistols,
The Techniques,
Skarface,
Robert Hood,
Gong,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joy Division,
Wings,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.