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 Somalia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and New York.
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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Flipper to the grunge 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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
The Motions,
Altered Images,
Blossom Toes,
Rapeman,
Soulsonic Force,
Scott Walker,
The Cure,
Procol Harum,
Yusef Lateef,
Drive Like Jehu,
Unwound,
Eric B and Rakim,
Quadrant,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Peter & Gordon,
Excepter,
Faraquet,
Black Sheep,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Hashim,
Mission of Burma,
Matthew Halsall,
Rufus Thomas,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Human League,
DNA,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Colin Newman,
Underground Resistance,
Little Man,
Duran Duran,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Brothers Johnson,
Rites of Spring,
Henry Cow,
DJ Style,
Donny Hathaway,
Section 25,
Banda Bassotti,
The Index,
Bob Dylan,
the Normal,
Wings,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Harpers Bizarre,
Amon Düül,
Nik Kershaw,
Subhumans,
CMW,
The Beau Brummels,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marcia Griffiths,
Chris & Cosey,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fela Kuti,
The Shadows of Knight,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.