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 Madagascar and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 arpeggiator 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 Absolute Body Control to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
F. McDonald,
Warren Ellis,
Lebanon Hanover,
China Crisis,
The Fuzztones,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Whodini,
Nico,
Sonic Youth,
Marmalade,
Harpers Bizarre,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Kinks,
The Real Kids,
a-ha,
Jacques Brel,
Franke,
The American Breed,
Funky Four + One,
Danielle Patucci,
Masters at Work,
The Walker Brothers,
Camouflage,
Deadbeat,
Liliput,
Underground Resistance,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Smiths,
Marcia Griffiths,
Man Parrish,
The Litter,
K-Klass,
Gang Green,
Bobby Byrd,
Cymande,
The Fugs,
Quantec,
Groovy Waters,
John Coltrane,
The Cramps,
Sandy B,
John Cale,
Piero Umiliani,
Flash Fearless,
Roxy Music,
Harmonia,
Von Mondo,
Silicon Teens,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Slits,
the Soft Cell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fela Kuti,
Kurtis Blow,
Gil Scott Heron,
Roxette,
Zero Boys,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Index,
Carl Craig,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.