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 Solomon Islands and from Sao Paulo.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Pop Group to the jazz 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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Sonic Youth,
Neu!,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Radiohead,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crispy Ambulance,
Carl Craig,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Average White Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Reuben Wilson,
The Trojans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Blues Magoos,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Robert Hood,
Pharoah Sanders,
Skriet,
Hasil Adkins,
Porter Ricks,
Vainqueur,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Stiv Bators,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Drexciya,
Radio Birdman,
Sugar Minott,
cv313,
Little Man,
Marshall Jefferson,
Yusef Lateef,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Human League,
Neil Young,
Scrapy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Real Kids,
New Order,
Slick Rick,
Skarface,
PIL,
Q65,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bobby Sherman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Blake Baxter,
Lightning Bolt,
Young Marble Giants,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Standells,
The Pretty Things,
Boz Scaggs,
Pantaleimon,
Scott Walker,
Ronan,
The Sonics,
Buzzcocks,
Supertramp,
Adolescents,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.