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 Bolivia and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 synthesizer 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the electroclash 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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Grandmaster Flash,
A Certain Ratio,
Guru Guru,
Mo-Dettes,
Stiv Bators,
China Crisis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Unrelated Segments,
the Bar-Kays,
Procol Harum,
Spandau Ballet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Popol Vuh,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Letta Mbulu,
Maurizio,
Zero Boys,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kenny Larkin,
Toni Rubio,
Yusef Lateef,
Roger Hodgson,
The Sound,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ludus,
The Barracudas,
Lyres,
The Music Machine,
Wings,
John Lydon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Grey Daturas,
Fear,
Warsaw,
The Shadows of Knight,
Alison Limerick,
Alton Ellis,
the Swans,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Fania All-Stars,
Joyce Sims,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Curtis Mayfield,
Minnie Riperton,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sister Nancy,
Infiniti,
Marshall Jefferson,
Piero Umiliani,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Barrington Levy,
Danielle Patucci,
Sun Ra,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ornette Coleman,
Y Pants,
Lakeside,
Blossom Toes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Interpol,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.