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 Switzerland and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 mellotron 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 The Mojo Men to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ 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 linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
In Retrospect,
The Moleskins,
David Bowie,
Quantec,
Nik Kershaw,
Jawbox,
PIL,
Alphaville,
World's Most,
Susan Cadogan,
Easy Going,
Black Pus,
Los Fastidios,
Cybotron,
Erykah Badu,
Neil Young,
Banda Bassotti,
Stiv Bators,
Mantronix,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soulsonic Force,
The Velvet Underground,
Echospace,
Brand Nubian,
Moss Icon,
E-Dancer,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Todd Terry,
James White and The Blacks,
Althea and Donna,
Outsiders,
John Cale,
Malaria!,
Blake Baxter,
Ronnie Foster,
Juan Atkins,
T.S.O.L.,
Supertramp,
Basic Channel,
The Smoke,
The Blackbyrds,
Organ,
Rod Modell,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Invisible,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Goldenarms,
John Coltrane,
Average White Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Archie Shepp,
Freddie Wadling,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Cameo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Tears for Fears,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rapeman,
David McCallum,
Johnny Clarke,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.