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 Ivory Coast and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Human League,
La Düsseldorf,
Throbbing Gristle,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jeff Mills,
X-101,
Donny Hathaway,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Robert Görl,
Grauzone,
Audionom,
Marmalade,
Youth Brigade,
Freddie Wadling,
Bootsy Collins,
Tres Demented,
the Association,
Harmonia,
Byron Stingily,
Sugar Minott,
Spoonie Gee,
Eric Copeland,
Flash Fearless,
Joe Smooth,
The Star Department,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lou Reed,
Ossler,
Avey Tare,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Gories,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Slick Rick,
Blossom Toes,
The Moody Blues,
Pagans,
Jerry's Kids,
The Cure,
Sandy B,
Eddi Front,
UT,
Underground Resistance,
June Days,
Ultravox,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bauhaus,
Echospace,
Negative Approach,
Ken Boothe,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rotary Connection,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
a-ha,
Sixth Finger,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.