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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 The Monochrome Set to the electroclash 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
10cc,
John Coltrane,
Lucky Dragons,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Das Ding,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Residents,
Juan Atkins,
Khruangbin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Red Krayola,
ABBA,
Barclay James Harvest,
Davy DMX,
Lungfish,
Joe Smooth,
Schoolly D,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Howard Jones,
Hot Snakes,
Suicide,
the Normal,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Aural Exciters,
Brick,
Buzzcocks,
Crooked Eye,
James White and The Blacks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kayak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bang On A Can,
Neu!,
Television Personalities,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bobby Byrd,
cv313,
The Knickerbockers,
Rod Modell,
Whodini,
Toni Rubio,
Carl Craig,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Q65,
The Trojans,
Danielle Patucci,
DJ Sneak,
The Stooges,
Ossler,
The Fugs,
Skaos,
Guru Guru,
the Swans,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Massinfluence,
Marshall Jefferson,
kango's stein massive,
Michelle Simonal,
Thee Headcoats,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.