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 Rwanda and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro 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 Sonny Sharrock to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wally Richardson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Names,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Drive Like Jehu,
Depeche Mode,
Soulsonic Force,
Carl Craig,
Traffic Nightmare,
Swans,
Rotary Connection,
Deepchord,
Gregory Isaacs,
MC5,
Camberwell Now,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jeff Mills,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Black Flag,
Livin' Joy,
Toni Rubio,
Skarface,
The Fire Engines,
Minutemen,
The Beau Brummels,
Scratch Acid,
Faust,
Blancmange,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Stiv Bators,
Outsiders,
Kurtis Blow,
Deadbeat,
Cheater Slicks,
The New Christs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
La Düsseldorf,
Alphaville,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lebanon Hanover,
Godley & Creme,
Simply Red,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gastr Del Sol,
Chris & Cosey,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Q and Not U,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Matthew Bourne,
Heaven 17,
A Certain Ratio,
Howard Jones,
Lungfish,
Mantronix,
The Offenders,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.