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 Nigeria and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 chamberlin 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 Eddi Front to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Flash Fearless,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Archie Shepp,
Crooked Eye,
Goldenarms,
Gang of Four,
Chris & Cosey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jerry's Kids,
Bootsy Collins,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Gories,
These Immortal Souls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
EPMD,
A Certain Ratio,
Tubeway Army,
Drexciya,
Jimmy McGriff,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Loose Ends,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Fugs,
The Litter,
U.S. Maple,
Donald Byrd,
AZ,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Faraquet,
Agent Orange,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
D'Angelo,
Patti Smith,
Visage,
The Martian,
Nation of Ulysses,
Wolf Eyes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Spoonie Gee,
Grandmaster Flash,
Brothers Johnson,
UT,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bill Near,
Bobby Sherman,
Joe Smooth,
Warren Ellis,
Sixth Finger,
the Germs,
Gang Green,
ABC,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kerri Chandler,
a-ha,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sight & Sound,
Frankie Knuckles,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.