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 Ethiopia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 James White and The Blacks to the crunk 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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All Public Enemy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
John Lydon,
Derrick May,
Soft Cell,
Connie Case,
The Pop Group,
The Zeros,
The Motions,
Todd Terry,
Amon Düül,
La Düsseldorf,
Prince Buster,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Deepchord,
CMW,
James White and The Blacks,
Morten Harket,
Duran Duran,
Wings,
Donald Byrd,
The Wake,
John Cale,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sällskapet,
Basic Channel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Desert Stars,
Von Mondo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Foxx,
The Techniques,
The Happenings,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amazonics,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Dirtbombs,
Organ,
Susan Cadogan,
Derrick Morgan,
China Crisis,
Michelle Simonal,
Jacques Brel,
The Moody Blues,
Ronan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
June Days,
Yusef Lateef,
Aural Exciters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Standells,
the Fania All-Stars,
Janne Schatter,
the Association,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Robert Görl,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.