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 Pakistan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sam Rivers to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Mo-Dettes,
MDC,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Schoolly D,
Nico,
Boz Scaggs,
Soft Machine,
The Black Dice,
Arab on Radar,
Michelle Simonal,
The Remains,
Bluetip,
Darondo,
Junior Murvin,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Althea and Donna,
Scan 7,
Fluxion,
Man Eating Sloth,
Audionom,
Mr. Review,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Boogie Down Productions,
Erykah Badu,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eurythmics,
Avey Tare,
the Slits,
Basic Channel,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Television Personalities,
Sonic Youth,
The Stooges,
Grey Daturas,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Smoke,
The Walker Brothers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
JFA,
Skaos,
Jacob Miller,
L. Decosne,
Ludus,
Vainqueur,
Soul Sonic Force,
Model 500,
Roy Ayers,
Marmalade,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Echospace,
Spandau Ballet,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Hardrive,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
David Axelrod,
Davy DMX,
Funkadelic,
Johnny Clarke,
Susan Cadogan,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.