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 Hungary and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Roy Ayers to the disco 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova 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 an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
cv313,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bluetip,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Motions,
Magazine,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Swans,
Jeff Mills,
Das Ding,
Rod Modell,
Unwound,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fort Wilson Riot,
David Axelrod,
The Fugs,
Delta 5,
Bang On A Can,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Gun Club,
Thee Headcoats,
Funkadelic,
Marmalade,
Eurythmics,
Gong,
The Selecter,
Hasil Adkins,
Scott Walker,
Kaleidoscope,
The Sound,
Lungfish,
China Crisis,
The Five Americans,
Agitation Free,
Scrapy,
Ronnie Foster,
The Monks,
Freddie Wadling,
Sam Rivers,
The Toasters,
Swell Maps,
Cecil Taylor,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Golliwogs,
Ituana,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Graham Central Station,
The Victims,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Icehouse,
Drive Like Jehu,
Peter & Gordon,
Accadde A,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Flag,
Dawn Penn,
Derrick Morgan,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.