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 Nigeria and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 David Bowie 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 Freddie Wadling to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Near record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Symarip,
Flash Fearless,
Erykah Badu,
Barry Ungar,
Animal Collective,
Trumans Water,
Leonard Cohen,
the Bar-Kays,
John Lydon,
Joy Division,
Royal Trux,
Barclay James Harvest,
DJ Style,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Gap Band,
Brothers Johnson,
Deakin,
The Last Poets,
Mission of Burma,
Bobby Byrd,
Darondo,
Skaos,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Johnny Clarke,
Rapeman,
Ten City,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Q65,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Smiths,
Alphaville,
The Gun Club,
Marmalade,
ABBA,
Parry Music,
Aloha Tigers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Mary Jane Girls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Underground Resistance,
Marine Girls,
The Human League,
Alison Limerick,
the Slits,
The Music Machine,
Funky Four + One,
DJ Sneak,
Sonic Youth,
DNA,
Silicon Teens,
Yellowson,
Derrick Morgan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ralphi Rosario,
Heaven 17,
Wally Richardson,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.