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 Lebanon and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes 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 Delon & Dalcan to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
EPMD,
The Invisible,
The American Breed,
Tom Boy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eric B and Rakim,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Martian,
The Last Poets,
One Last Wish,
Q and Not U,
Anthony Braxton,
Marine Girls,
Shoche,
Blake Baxter,
Don Cherry,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bootsy Collins,
Eric Dolphy,
Flipper,
Nico,
Silicon Teens,
Sixth Finger,
The Raincoats,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Dead C,
Buzzcocks,
Johnny Clarke,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Simply Red,
Rites of Spring,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Radiohead,
Alton Ellis,
The Gories,
Bobby Womack,
David Bowie,
Rufus Thomas,
Faraquet,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bush Tetras,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eli Mardock,
Audionom,
Massinfluence,
Jimmy McGriff,
Alice Coltrane,
Ituana,
Fluxion,
Blossom Toes,
Skaos,
Derrick May,
The Knickerbockers,
the Association,
Grauzone,
The Standells,
Kayak,
Barbara Tucker,
A Certain Ratio,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.