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 Mongolia and from Bologna.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rapeman to the jazz 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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
a-ha,
Don Cherry,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Oneida,
Lalann,
DJ Style,
Livin' Joy,
Swell Maps,
Eden Ahbez,
The Toasters,
Half Japanese,
Isaac Hayes,
The Remains,
Cal Tjader,
Chris & Cosey,
Hardrive,
Brass Construction,
Khruangbin,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Martian,
the Normal,
LL Cool J,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mission of Burma,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Black Sheep,
The Moleskins,
Agent Orange,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Excepter,
Roxy Music,
Sixth Finger,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Darondo,
Jerry's Kids,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Inner City,
Susan Cadogan,
Zapp,
Symarip,
Jeff Mills,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Amazonics,
Ken Boothe,
Eve St. Jones,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mantronix,
Black Moon,
Echospace,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Supertramp,
The Blues Magoos,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Charles Mingus,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Offenders,
Chris Corsano,
Soft Cell,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.