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 Brunei and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Philadelphia.
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 harpsichord 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 Erasure to the rock 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 The Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Inner City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Main Source,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Harmonia,
Pantaleimon,
Alton Ellis,
Erasure,
Arcadia,
Jeff Mills,
Royal Trux,
John Coltrane,
Shoche,
Negative Approach,
The Evens,
Mr. Review,
Deakin,
The Index,
Agitation Free,
Joy Division,
The J.B.'s,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Aural Exciters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siglo XX,
Magma,
The Gladiators,
Skaos,
D'Angelo,
Scientists,
Sister Nancy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Q and Not U,
Black Bananas,
Average White Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
CMW,
One Last Wish,
The Remains,
10cc,
Davy DMX,
Ultra Naté,
Model 500,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Warren Ellis,
Glenn Branca,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eddi Front,
Lindisfarne,
Mars,
Soft Cell,
The Black Dice,
Dave Gahan,
The Knickerbockers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Delta 5,
Eric Copeland,
Joyce Sims,
Scan 7,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.