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 Bahamas and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Angry Samoans to the punk 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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt 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 guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
The Doors,
Erasure,
Technova,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Gories,
World's Most,
The Alarm Clocks,
Little Man,
Patti Smith,
Tim Buckley,
Maurizio,
Shuggie Otis,
Barclay James Harvest,
Cal Tjader,
Dennis Brown,
The Mojo Men,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mo-Dettes,
Wire,
Hoover,
David Bowie,
Fatback Band,
John Coltrane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Funkadelic,
Nirvana,
Surgeon,
Angry Samoans,
Deadbeat,
Camouflage,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Soul II Soul,
The Fall,
Grey Daturas,
The New Christs,
Matthew Halsall,
Adolescents,
Crispian St. Peters,
Alice Coltrane,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Gap Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Mantronix,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Section 25,
Barrington Levy,
Pulsallama,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Lydon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sonic Youth,
Idris Muhammad,
Grauzone,
Quadrant,
Ten City,
Mars,
T. Rex,
Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling.
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.