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 Honduras and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 The Blues Magoos to the funk 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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Minor Threat,
Von Mondo,
Essential Logic,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dead Boys,
Nico,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Unwound,
E-Dancer,
Brothers Johnson,
Funkadelic,
the Swans,
The Angels of Light,
Alice Coltrane,
Agitation Free,
The Stooges,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bobby Sherman,
Fatback Band,
The Wake,
The Beau Brummels,
X-102,
Shuggie Otis,
Spoonie Gee,
The Tremeloes,
Faust,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sandy B,
Carl Craig,
Grauzone,
Davy DMX,
Kaleidoscope,
Tomorrow,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eve St. Jones,
X-101,
Gang Starr,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Foxx,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Knickerbockers,
La Düsseldorf,
Pagans,
Buzzcocks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ossler,
Tears for Fears,
Brick,
Barbara Tucker,
Negative Approach,
Eric Dolphy,
Albert Ayler,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
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.