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 Tuvalu and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Vogues to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Laurel Aitken,
Erasure,
Kevin Saunderson,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Neon Judgement,
Camberwell Now,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Blackbyrds,
Michelle Simonal,
The Cowsills,
Gong,
Ohio Players,
The Durutti Column,
Urselle,
The New Christs,
Infiniti,
the Fania All-Stars,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Sound,
La Düsseldorf,
Can,
Donny Hathaway,
David McCallum,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Basic Channel,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Whodini,
June of 44,
The Moody Blues,
Todd Rundgren,
A Certain Ratio,
Tom Boy,
the Slits,
Simply Red,
Robert Hood,
Tres Demented,
Janne Schatter,
Crash Course in Science,
The J.B.'s,
Rufus Thomas,
Amon Düül II,
Roger Hodgson,
Average White Band,
Deepchord,
Sugar Minott,
Gang of Four,
AZ,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
PIL,
Scratch Acid,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mad Mike,
Rapeman,
One Last Wish,
Main Source,
Underground Resistance,
The Grass Roots,
Toni Rubio,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.