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 Vanuatu and from Lagos.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Donald Fagen 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 Soft Cell to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Fear,
Gichy Dan,
U.S. Maple,
48th St. Collective,
Kayak,
Sonny Sharrock,
Blake Baxter,
Talk Talk,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rekid,
Graham Central Station,
Black Bananas,
Zapp,
Warsaw,
The Offenders,
Ken Boothe,
China Crisis,
Mo-Dettes,
Scan 7,
The Fortunes,
The Five Americans,
The Walker Brothers,
New Order,
Kurtis Blow,
Depeche Mode,
This Heat,
James White and The Blacks,
Yaz,
the Association,
Piero Umiliani,
Country Teasers,
The Happenings,
Von Mondo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Delta 5,
Wally Richardson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Symarip,
Adolescents,
Jerry's Kids,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Electric Prunes,
Wire,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marshall Jefferson,
UT,
Hardrive,
Cameo,
Barry Ungar,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Mojo Men,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pylon,
Tubeway Army,
Ponytail,
Leonard Cohen,
David Axelrod,
Eve St. Jones,
Wasted Youth,
Radiohead,
Fatback Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.