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 Paraguay and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Youth Brigade 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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Cybotron,
Soft Machine,
Pulsallama,
Kenny Larkin,
Heaven 17,
Boredoms,
The Associates,
Spandau Ballet,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Evens,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lungfish,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Brothers Johnson,
Jacques Brel,
Urselle,
Oneida,
Silicon Teens,
Maleditus Sound,
Essential Logic,
the Germs,
The Sonics,
Whodini,
Panda Bear,
The Saints,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Zero Boys,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Tremeloes,
Anakelly,
Idris Muhammad,
Black Sheep,
Brick,
Janne Schatter,
The Blues Magoos,
Maurizio,
Moebius,
The Trojans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grauzone,
Suicide,
John Holt,
This Heat,
Johnny Osbourne,
Marshall Jefferson,
Avey Tare,
Kayak,
Sam Rivers,
The Techniques,
Amazonics,
The American Breed,
Morten Harket,
Gang of Four,
The Young Rascals,
Junior Murvin,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.