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 Syria and from Bologna.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Roxy Music 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Negative Approach,
Jeff Mills,
The Grass Roots,
Model 500,
Crime,
Y Pants,
Wasted Youth,
Swell Maps,
The Techniques,
David Bowie,
The Five Americans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Guru Guru,
Carl Craig,
Gang Starr,
Nico,
Sight & Sound,
the Soft Cell,
Bobbi Humphrey,
X-102,
Curtis Mayfield,
Alton Ellis,
The Cowsills,
Soul II Soul,
Lyres,
Main Source,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
10cc,
The Monks,
Tears for Fears,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Blackbyrds,
Ice-T,
The Sound,
Connie Case,
Crispy Ambulance,
Darondo,
Deakin,
Arcadia,
Neil Young,
Lungfish,
Pole,
Barbara Tucker,
Kaleidoscope,
Animal Collective,
The Offenders,
New York Dolls,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Skatalites,
Dual Sessions,
Todd Terry,
Wally Richardson,
Lightning Bolt,
Whodini,
The Black Dice,
Alice Coltrane,
Crooked Eye,
The Pretty Things,
Boz Scaggs,
Freddie Wadling,
Can,
Drexciya,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.