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 St Lucia and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 arpeggiator 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 The Beau Brummels to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Sparks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The J.B.'s,
Fugazi,
World's Most,
Wolf Eyes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Newcleus,
Jeru the Damaja,
Au Pairs,
June of 44,
Roxette,
Cecil Taylor,
Alton Ellis,
Simply Red,
Freddie Wadling,
Albert Ayler,
Black Moon,
Sarah Menescal,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dawn Penn,
Lalann,
Eurythmics,
David Bowie,
Quantec,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ten City,
Joensuu 1685,
Tubeway Army,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Happenings,
The Gladiators,
Erykah Badu,
Loose Ends,
Technova,
Crime,
Carl Craig,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
FM Einheit,
U.S. Maple,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Iggy Pop,
Mo-Dettes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Clear Light,
Infiniti,
Flash Fearless,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mission of Burma,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quadrant,
Faust,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pantaleimon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Davy DMX,
Nas,
Parry Music,
Eve St. Jones,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.