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 Burkina and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe 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 Gladiators to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harpers Bizarre,
ABBA,
Cluster,
Scrapy,
Q and Not U,
D'Angelo,
Kas Product,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rites of Spring,
Sam Rivers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fluxion,
AZ,
The Trojans,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Leonard Cohen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moebius,
Jimmy McGriff,
T.S.O.L.,
Juan Atkins,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Music Machine,
Popol Vuh,
Pere Ubu,
Bauhaus,
Hashim,
The Five Americans,
Heaven 17,
Hasil Adkins,
Circle Jerks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Peter & Gordon,
Scratch Acid,
The Offenders,
Eden Ahbez,
Rekid,
Model 500,
Rosa Yemen,
Monolake,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Anakelly,
The Young Rascals,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Saccharine Trust,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Roxy Music,
The Blues Magoos,
Moby Grape,
Colin Newman,
Mission of Burma,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Judy Mowatt,
Monks,
Zapp,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.