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 Benin and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Radio Birdman to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Slick Rick,
Godley & Creme,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Young Marble Giants,
New Order,
the Association,
Fad Gadget,
Au Pairs,
Infiniti,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kenny Larkin,
Al Stewart,
Procol Harum,
Cal Tjader,
Spandau Ballet,
Scott Walker,
Tres Demented,
Minnie Riperton,
Duran Duran,
Idris Muhammad,
Steve Hackett,
Reagan Youth,
The Blackbyrds,
Bill Wells,
Lindisfarne,
Outsiders,
John Cale,
KRS-One,
8 Eyed Spy,
Deakin,
New York Dolls,
Lucky Dragons,
Nik Kershaw,
Youth Brigade,
Scion,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sun City Girls,
Lalann,
The Busters,
Scan 7,
Erasure,
Gil Scott Heron,
Blake Baxter,
The Smoke,
Skaos,
Smog,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Erykah Badu,
The Gories,
Little Man,
Robert Hood,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gang of Four,
Moebius,
The Buckinghams,
La Düsseldorf,
Eden Ahbez,
Con Funk Shun,
Cameo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.