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 Burundi and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Mummies to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pulsallama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ken Boothe,
Chris & Cosey,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Warsaw,
The Raincoats,
Metal Thangz,
Heaven 17,
Skarface,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Grass Roots,
The Pretty Things,
Man Parrish,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Anakelly,
Eric Dolphy,
The Fire Engines,
Pagans,
The Fuzztones,
Yellowson,
Niagra,
Boredoms,
Marine Girls,
EPMD,
Mandrill,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Funkadelic,
Pantaleimon,
Lakeside,
Sonny Sharrock,
Flash Fearless,
Josef K,
Colin Newman,
Oneida,
Loose Ends,
Electric Prunes,
Soulsonic Force,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fad Gadget,
Erasure,
L. Decosne,
Con Funk Shun,
UT,
DJ Style,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Soft Cell,
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soft Machine,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lower 48,
MDC,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Stiv Bators,
Arab on Radar,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
B.T. Express,
Crime,
Davy DMX,
Babytalk,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.