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 South Africa and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the rock 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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lower 48,
Quadrant,
Mary Jane Girls,
Joe Finger,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
X-Ray Spex,
Lightning Bolt,
Bobby Womack,
Charles Mingus,
Jandek,
U.S. Maple,
Mark Hollis,
Suicide,
Pharoah Sanders,
D'Angelo,
LL Cool J,
Delta 5,
Parry Music,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Joe Smooth,
Piero Umiliani,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
June of 44,
Ultravox,
Basic Channel,
Lakeside,
Eli Mardock,
Avey Tare,
Matthew Bourne,
Glambeats Corp.,
Derrick Morgan,
John Cale,
David McCallum,
Thompson Twins,
The Smoke,
Neu!,
Gabor Szabo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Chris Corsano,
Saccharine Trust,
Can,
Man Eating Sloth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Hoover,
Bobby Byrd,
Easy Going,
Banda Bassotti,
The Gories,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Monks,
Gichy Dan,
Masters at Work,
Connie Case,
Guru Guru,
Cecil Taylor,
Bang On A Can,
Heaven 17,
John Holt,
A Certain Ratio,
Rhythm & Sound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.