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 Malta and from Salvador.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 synthesizer 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 Little Man to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radio Birdman,
Royal Trux,
X-101,
Average White Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Simply Red,
ABBA,
June of 44,
Terry Callier,
Sister Nancy,
David McCallum,
Skaos,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Porter Ricks,
The Kinks,
Qualms,
Y Pants,
Main Source,
Ponytail,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Loose Ends,
Faust,
The Blackbyrds,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bob Dylan,
Excepter,
The Monochrome Set,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Soulsonic Force,
48th St. Collective,
Eric Dolphy,
Pylon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Music Machine,
The Toasters,
Intrusion,
Monks,
New York Dolls,
Q and Not U,
Khruangbin,
Danielle Patucci,
Thompson Twins,
Lindisfarne,
Inner City,
Alice Coltrane,
Wings,
Johnny Clarke,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sixth Finger,
Section 25,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Chris & Cosey,
Peter & Gordon,
Deepchord,
Steve Hackett,
Lungfish,
Mission of Burma,
Mo-Dettes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.