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 Mexico and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Althea and Donna 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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s 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 Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
48th St. Collective,
Peter & Gordon,
Rites of Spring,
Big Daddy Kane,
Half Japanese,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eric Dolphy,
F. McDonald,
Bad Manners,
Quadrant,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Victims,
The Fugs,
The Tremeloes,
Juan Atkins,
Infiniti,
the Normal,
Outsiders,
Gang Starr,
Bobby Womack,
Robert Wyatt,
Arcadia,
Bauhaus,
Donny Hathaway,
The Index,
The J.B.'s,
Archie Shepp,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
10cc,
Lou Reed,
Scion,
Rotary Connection,
Nils Olav,
Fela Kuti,
Rosa Yemen,
Blossom Toes,
The Litter,
EPMD,
Andrew Hill,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Main Source,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lou Christie,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Cramps,
Boredoms,
Anthony Braxton,
The American Breed,
Byron Stingily,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cecil Taylor,
Curtis Mayfield,
June of 44,
Lyres,
D'Angelo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Erykah Badu,
Skaos,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.