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 Congo and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Michael McDonald 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 Peter & Gordon to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Durutti Column,
Infiniti,
The Young Rascals,
Warren Ellis,
Gabor Szabo,
Erykah Badu,
Camouflage,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tom Boy,
Rod Modell,
Subhumans,
China Crisis,
David Axelrod,
The Grass Roots,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quadrant,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Chris Corsano,
Heaven 17,
Zero Boys,
T. Rex,
Symarip,
LL Cool J,
Archie Shepp,
The Blackbyrds,
Camberwell Now,
Swans,
Panda Bear,
E-Dancer,
James White and The Blacks,
Mantronix,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Vogues,
The Fortunes,
New Order,
D'Angelo,
Desert Stars,
Josef K,
PIL,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Carl Craig,
Pantytec,
Peter & Gordon,
Black Pus,
Hardrive,
Metal Thangz,
Second Layer,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Max Romeo,
DJ Sneak,
Dave Gahan,
Duran Duran,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Joyce Sims,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.