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 Korea South and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 48th St. Collective to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Clear Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ronnie Foster,
Colin Newman,
Charles Mingus,
Juan Atkins,
K-Klass,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mark Hollis,
La Düsseldorf,
Young Marble Giants,
Dennis Brown,
Todd Terry,
Ten City,
The Monochrome Set,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
June of 44,
Boz Scaggs,
The Gladiators,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
China Crisis,
Eli Mardock,
Ituana,
Don Cherry,
Masters at Work,
Black Moon,
Circle Jerks,
The Five Americans,
Monks,
Andrew Hill,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mandrill,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Dead C,
Echospace,
Reagan Youth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eric Copeland,
Negative Approach,
Liliput,
Junior Murvin,
Harmonia,
Dawn Penn,
Massinfluence,
Delta 5,
Anakelly,
Sound Behaviour,
Ralphi Rosario,
Wally Richardson,
Iggy Pop,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Malaria!,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Desert Stars,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tom Boy,
Chris Corsano,
The Star Department,
Motorama,
Eden Ahbez,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.