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 Colombia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Philadelphia and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 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 Sun Ra to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pulsallama,
MDC,
Quantec,
The Residents,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Raincoats,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Eric Dolphy,
Eric Copeland,
Nils Olav,
Con Funk Shun,
Soft Cell,
Half Japanese,
James White and The Blacks,
the Bar-Kays,
Guru Guru,
Adolescents,
Slick Rick,
Gang Starr,
The Buckinghams,
Dennis Brown,
Magma,
The Evens,
LL Cool J,
Bob Dylan,
Siglo XX,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Monochrome Set,
Crooked Eye,
Kaleidoscope,
Oneida,
Lower 48,
Lalann,
Metal Thangz,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bluetip,
Unrelated Segments,
Newcleus,
Section 25,
Loose Ends,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Count Five,
Gang Gang Dance,
Archie Shepp,
E-Dancer,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
T.S.O.L.,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lalo Schifrin,
X-102,
Lungfish,
In Retrospect,
Andrew Hill,
Quadrant,
The Motions,
The Techniques,
Masters at Work,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Warren Ellis,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.