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 Antigua and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 the Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
Leonard Cohen,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sparks,
Brass Construction,
Agitation Free,
Metal Thangz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kas Product,
The Dirtbombs,
AZ,
Radiohead,
Brand Nubian,
Gichy Dan,
Pole,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skarface,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
R.M.O.,
the Bar-Kays,
Talk Talk,
DJ Style,
Nico,
Marc Almond,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Barclay James Harvest,
Groovy Waters,
Agent Orange,
Hardrive,
Tres Demented,
Sex Pistols,
Pylon,
Aural Exciters,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Grey Daturas,
Crispy Ambulance,
Swans,
Lakeside,
The Barracudas,
Saccharine Trust,
Bluetip,
UT,
X-102,
Michelle Simonal,
Vainqueur,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rufus Thomas,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Association,
Interpol,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Don Cherry,
The Fortunes,
Kaleidoscope,
Magazine,
Oneida,
The Evens,
The Grass Roots,
Niagra,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.