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 Kenya and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Donald Fagen 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 United States of America to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Agitation Free,
The Count Five,
Tubeway Army,
The Associates,
Loose Ends,
This Heat,
Eric B and Rakim,
June Days,
Deakin,
CMW,
Spandau Ballet,
The Happenings,
Jimmy McGriff,
Urselle,
Don Cherry,
Fatback Band,
The Seeds,
The Moleskins,
Dawn Penn,
Jerry's Kids,
Half Japanese,
Erasure,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Joe Smooth,
Little Man,
Peter and Kerry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Charles Mingus,
The Searchers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Porter Ricks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Freddie Wadling,
Moebius,
Yusef Lateef,
KRS-One,
The Velvet Underground,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tommy Roe,
The Slits,
Rapeman,
Fluxion,
Pere Ubu,
The Raincoats,
Erykah Badu,
Sonic Youth,
The Grass Roots,
Slick Rick,
The Index,
Sällskapet,
The Buckinghams,
Vladislav Delay,
The Move,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Q65,
Audionom,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fall,
Nas,
Popol Vuh,
Glambeats Corp.,
Matthew Halsall,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.