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 Gabon and from Delhi.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tokyo.
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 synthesizer 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 Tropical Tobacco to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Piero Umiliani,
Todd Rundgren,
The J.B.'s,
Goldenarms,
Slave,
Au Pairs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Residents,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mars,
A Certain Ratio,
The Stooges,
The Gun Club,
the Soft Cell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grauzone,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Swell Maps,
Funky Four + One,
Fatback Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Wally Richardson,
Tubeway Army,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Dead C,
Fela Kuti,
Cecil Taylor,
10cc,
The Knickerbockers,
Negative Approach,
Ice-T,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
New Order,
Kerrie Biddell,
Babytalk,
Camouflage,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Names,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sun Ra,
The Techniques,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Golliwogs,
Pantytec,
Isaac Hayes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Cure,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Khruangbin,
Godley & Creme,
Gabor Szabo,
Bobby Womack,
Lyres,
The Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Icehouse,
Lower 48,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.