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 Algeria and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Mumbai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 AZ to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Roxy Music,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Vladislav Delay,
Nik Kershaw,
Barrington Levy,
The Associates,
JFA,
The Happenings,
John Cale,
Funkadelic,
Ultimate Spinach,
Janne Schatter,
Drive Like Jehu,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Barbara Tucker,
Agent Orange,
In Retrospect,
Intrusion,
The Cure,
Brick,
Tom Boy,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Germs,
The Stooges,
The Index,
Joensuu 1685,
the Soft Cell,
Frankie Knuckles,
John Holt,
OOIOO,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alphaville,
Iggy Pop,
Nirvana,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jeru the Damaja,
Icehouse,
Stereo Dub,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Spoonie Gee,
Symarip,
The Gladiators,
Fad Gadget,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Toni Rubio,
The Dead C,
Pharoah Sanders,
Yusef Lateef,
Crooked Eye,
Scion,
Hashim,
Sight & Sound,
DJ Sneak,
Flash Fearless,
the Association,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.