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 Nepal and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the rap 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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Sound,
Icehouse,
Shuggie Otis,
Boogie Down Productions,
Todd Terry,
Ultra Naté,
Agitation Free,
Barclay James Harvest,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter and Kerry,
Babytalk,
The Standells,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Blackbyrds,
Skarface,
The Offenders,
Blossom Toes,
Agent Orange,
Freddie Wadling,
Andrew Hill,
Deepchord,
Sun Ra,
The Count Five,
Curtis Mayfield,
Spoonie Gee,
Laurel Aitken,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Liliput,
Con Funk Shun,
Severed Heads,
Accadde A,
X-101,
Graham Central Station,
Stiv Bators,
Rotary Connection,
Erykah Badu,
Vainqueur,
Gang Gang Dance,
Al Stewart,
Niagra,
Man Eating Sloth,
Robert Hood,
The Index,
Moss Icon,
Marine Girls,
Television,
Eli Mardock,
Trumans Water,
Wolf Eyes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Inner City,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tom Boy,
The Stooges,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Porter Ricks,
The Moleskins,
Brothers Johnson,
Kas Product,
The Happenings,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.