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 Brunei and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb 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 Jerry's Kids to the rap 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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Lower 48,
Delta 5,
Joensuu 1685,
Cluster,
Don Cherry,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Television Personalities,
Frankie Knuckles,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Hasil Adkins,
Agitation Free,
Boz Scaggs,
The Evens,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Gap Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Star Department,
The Cramps,
Amon Düül,
The Vogues,
Terry Callier,
Kurtis Blow,
The Gories,
Oneida,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Desert Stars,
Erasure,
Groovy Waters,
Animal Collective,
Sällskapet,
Monolake,
Soft Machine,
Piero Umiliani,
kango's stein massive,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Derrick Morgan,
Alton Ellis,
Little Man,
Ultravox,
Tommy Roe,
the Normal,
Ohio Players,
Barry Ungar,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Black Moon,
Amazonics,
The Monochrome Set,
Idris Muhammad,
Motorama,
Ralphi Rosario,
John Cale,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Young Marble Giants,
Boredoms,
The Sound,
The Shadows of Knight,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.