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 Gambia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar 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 Jeru the Damaja to the dance 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare 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 clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Arcadia,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lakeside,
Television Personalities,
Colin Newman,
The Slackers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Byron Stingily,
Derrick Morgan,
David Axelrod,
Agent Orange,
John Foxx,
Country Teasers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Terry Callier,
Lindisfarne,
Cabaret Voltaire,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Niagra,
DNA,
The Sound,
the Normal,
Babytalk,
Au Pairs,
Marc Almond,
Crime,
Robert Wyatt,
Rosa Yemen,
Connie Case,
Sixth Finger,
Desert Stars,
Peter and Kerry,
Gang Starr,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Offenders,
The Velvet Underground,
The United States of America,
Roxy Music,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bad Manners,
Scott Walker,
Minnie Riperton,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eve St. Jones,
The Cure,
Electric Prunes,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ludus,
The American Breed,
Sam Rivers,
Jacques Brel,
The Human League,
Soulsonic Force,
Schoolly D,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cybotron,
Fad Gadget,
The Tremeloes,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.