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 Brazil and from Mexico City.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 synthesizer 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 the Germs 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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Amon Düül II,
Bush Tetras,
The Smoke,
kango's stein massive,
Ice-T,
Flipper,
The Moleskins,
Camberwell Now,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sam Rivers,
Supertramp,
Slave,
Letta Mbulu,
The Monochrome Set,
Mad Mike,
The Leaves,
The Cramps,
Moebius,
ABBA,
The Evens,
Tropical Tobacco,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Tommy Roe,
Bad Manners,
EPMD,
Drexciya,
Easy Going,
Saccharine Trust,
Massinfluence,
Danielle Patucci,
Tom Boy,
Patti Smith,
Soft Machine,
The Busters,
Circle Jerks,
Warsaw,
Royal Trux,
John Cale,
Technova,
Bluetip,
Nico,
MC5,
Crash Course in Science,
DNA,
Faust,
the Sonics,
Bauhaus,
The Neon Judgement,
The Index,
The Vogues,
Fela Kuti,
H. Thieme,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Adolescents,
Surgeon,
Mark Hollis,
Rotary Connection,
Dennis Brown,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.