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 Eritrea and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Funkadelic to the crunk 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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
Metal Thangz,
Don Cherry,
Colin Newman,
Fugazi,
Avey Tare,
Grauzone,
Ossler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Massinfluence,
Roxy Music,
Kas Product,
Pylon,
L. Decosne,
Radio Birdman,
Sly & The Family Stone,
In Retrospect,
Lower 48,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Stockholm Monsters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Little Man,
H. Thieme,
Joe Smooth,
Motorama,
Flash Fearless,
The Smiths,
The Searchers,
Letta Mbulu,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Model 500,
Hoover,
Country Teasers,
JFA,
Harry Pussy,
Echospace,
Robert Hood,
Patti Smith,
DJ Style,
Hasil Adkins,
Can,
David Bowie,
The Invisible,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Simply Red,
Audionom,
David Axelrod,
Skriet,
The Litter,
Skaos,
Althea and Donna,
Scan 7,
Mad Mike,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sam Rivers,
Swell Maps,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Nas,
Moby Grape,
Goldenarms,
Delon & Dalcan,
Black Sheep,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.