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 Indonesia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Lightning Bolt to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Angry Samoans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Happenings,
Visage,
Todd Terry,
Sex Pistols,
Swell Maps,
Zapp,
Sonny Sharrock,
Charles Mingus,
DNA,
8 Eyed Spy,
Prince Buster,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Archie Shepp,
New York Dolls,
Siglo XX,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sexual Harrassment,
Wings,
The Standells,
The Gories,
Faust,
Marshall Jefferson,
T.S.O.L.,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Royal Trux,
Sandy B,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Don Cherry,
David Bowie,
Mark Hollis,
Essential Logic,
Groovy Waters,
Black Sheep,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Kinks,
the Slits,
LL Cool J,
The Blues Magoos,
R.M.O.,
Basic Channel,
Slick Rick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tom Boy,
Fear,
Echospace,
Anthony Braxton,
Robert Wyatt,
Goldenarms,
the Association,
Bootsy Collins,
Bill Near,
Liliput,
The Monks,
X-101,
Main Source,
Erasure,
The Searchers,
The Index,
Alison Limerick,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.