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 Guyana and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Lou Reed 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Nik Kershaw,
Thompson Twins,
cv313,
Hoover,
Alton Ellis,
Unwound,
Letta Mbulu,
Lyres,
John Holt,
The Saints,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Minutemen,
Jesper Dahlback,
X-101,
The Toasters,
Colin Newman,
LL Cool J,
Barclay James Harvest,
Josef K,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Magma,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
David McCallum,
PIL,
Theoretical Girls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Circle Jerks,
The Litter,
Q and Not U,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Axelrod,
Don Cherry,
Yellowson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bobby Womack,
Negative Approach,
The Gap Band,
Lower 48,
Cal Tjader,
Ultimate Spinach,
Charles Mingus,
Jeff Lynne,
Scratch Acid,
Arab on Radar,
The Grass Roots,
The Moody Blues,
the Bar-Kays,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
E-Dancer,
Tres Demented,
Shuggie Otis,
Boz Scaggs,
The Star Department,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.