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 Laos and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Cheater Slicks to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Black Flag,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Saints,
Moss Icon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oblivians,
K-Klass,
Joy Division,
Joey Negro,
Infiniti,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Agent Orange,
Alphaville,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kaleidoscope,
Aswad,
Robert Görl,
The Knickerbockers,
Johnny Clarke,
Yazoo,
Fatback Band,
Jawbox,
The Kinks,
E-Dancer,
The Smoke,
Severed Heads,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Crooked Eye,
Dual Sessions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Davy DMX,
Piero Umiliani,
The Sound,
Archie Shepp,
Minutemen,
Bad Manners,
ABC,
La Düsseldorf,
Lakeside,
Grey Daturas,
Black Bananas,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Fortunes,
Brothers Johnson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fela Kuti,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Babytalk,
Ultimate Spinach,
Inner City,
Monolake,
Main Source,
Lyres,
KRS-One,
Groovy Waters,
Alton Ellis,
Dorothy Ashby,
Smog,
Barrington Levy,
Janne Schatter,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.