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 Lebanon and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 chamberlin 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 Sonny Sharrock to the grime 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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultra Naté record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Niagra,
Dual Sessions,
Average White Band,
The Gories,
Whodini,
Soulsonic Force,
Amon Düül,
Loose Ends,
Q and Not U,
The Human League,
the Swans,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeff Mills,
David Axelrod,
David Bowie,
The Dead C,
John Holt,
T. Rex,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Echospace,
Ituana,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Kinks,
Tom Boy,
Ultra Naté,
Slave,
Thompson Twins,
Sonic Youth,
World's Most,
Accadde A,
Arab on Radar,
Mary Jane Girls,
Massinfluence,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Popol Vuh,
Mo-Dettes,
UT,
Delta 5,
The Birthday Party,
Joyce Sims,
the Normal,
Half Japanese,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Bar-Kays,
Faraquet,
Excepter,
Soft Cell,
Iggy Pop,
Sight & Sound,
Ohio Players,
Con Funk Shun,
Minnie Riperton,
Moby Grape,
Audionom,
Theoretical Girls,
Skaos,
Sound Behaviour,
Interpol,
B.T. Express,
MC5,
The Selecter,
Harpers Bizarre,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.