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 Cuba and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 Circle Jerks to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
The Angels of Light,
Easy Going,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gong,
Little Man,
Pharoah Sanders,
Roxette,
Main Source,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lyres,
Nick Fraelich,
Iggy Pop,
Tim Buckley,
Japan,
Subhumans,
June of 44,
Kool Moe Dee,
Aswad,
Audionom,
The Red Krayola,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Con Funk Shun,
Sparks,
Lou Reed,
E-Dancer,
Tres Demented,
X-101,
U.S. Maple,
Bang On A Can,
Josef K,
Derrick Morgan,
Chrome,
Gang Gang Dance,
Funkadelic,
June Days,
Sällskapet,
The Gladiators,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Brass Construction,
Joensuu 1685,
One Last Wish,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Big Daddy Kane,
Alison Limerick,
Eric Dolphy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stiv Bators,
Reuben Wilson,
The Invisible,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lucky Dragons,
Jacques Brel,
Ronan,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.