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 Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Robert Palmer 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 Barbara Tucker to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Angels of Light. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Goldenarms,
The Trojans,
Ponytail,
Bad Manners,
Ice-T,
Banda Bassotti,
Qualms,
Bobby Womack,
Babytalk,
David Axelrod,
Stockholm Monsters,
D'Angelo,
Pantytec,
The Young Rascals,
The Vogues,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Main Source,
Pagans,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Black Dice,
The Grass Roots,
Chrome,
Funkadelic,
The Barracudas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Circle Jerks,
Brothers Johnson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lightning Bolt,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Sherman,
The Names,
The Mojo Men,
Drexciya,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jacob Miller,
Graham Central Station,
Harry Pussy,
The Angels of Light,
This Heat,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter & Gordon,
Unwound,
Jandek,
Donald Byrd,
Stereo Dub,
The Gap Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Barclay James Harvest,
Half Japanese,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Crooked Eye,
Little Man,
Silicon Teens,
Faraquet,
Jeff Mills,
Trumans Water,
DNA,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.