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 Cambodia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 synthesizer 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 AZ to the electroclash 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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Bobby Womack,
Derrick Morgan,
The Electric Prunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Clarke,
Scrapy,
The Stooges,
Marvin Gaye,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Leonard Cohen,
Zapp,
The Monks,
Second Layer,
Dennis Brown,
Excepter,
Tomorrow,
Scan 7,
June of 44,
Country Teasers,
MC5,
Porter Ricks,
Ornette Coleman,
Simply Red,
Jacob Miller,
Main Source,
Hot Snakes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scientists,
Jeru the Damaja,
Underground Resistance,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sex Pistols,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fela Kuti,
Infiniti,
Suicide,
Crash Course in Science,
Traffic Nightmare,
Graham Central Station,
Man Eating Sloth,
Darondo,
The New Christs,
The Grass Roots,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marcia Griffiths,
Popol Vuh,
Tears for Fears,
Sandy B,
Ronan,
New Order,
Stereo Dub,
Black Flag,
World's Most,
Electric Prunes,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fall,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Saints,
Al Stewart,
Matthew Bourne,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.