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 Guyana and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 clarinet 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 Golliwogs to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
The Seeds,
Marcia Griffiths,
Idris Muhammad,
Swans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nick Fraelich,
Parry Music,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Model 500,
Henry Cow,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Mandrill,
Harry Pussy,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Trojans,
Tres Demented,
Graham Central Station,
Josef K,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Glambeats Corp.,
Popol Vuh,
The Cure,
the Normal,
The Velvet Underground,
Wings,
Brand Nubian,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Fad Gadget,
The Fugs,
Mo-Dettes,
a-ha,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Dennis Brown,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Buzzcocks,
The Real Kids,
Boredoms,
Underground Resistance,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Doors,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Index,
Magma,
The Dirtbombs,
Barbara Tucker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cameo,
Crash Course in Science,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sarah Menescal,
Television Personalities,
Peter and Kerry,
Althea and Donna,
Roger Hodgson,
Q and Not U,
The Monks,
UT,
Alice Coltrane,
Country Teasers,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.