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 Iraq and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manchester.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Flash Fearless to the punk 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dennis Brown,
Radiohead,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Quadrant,
FM Einheit,
The Golliwogs,
kango's stein massive,
Rakim,
Cybotron,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pylon,
Gang of Four,
OOIOO,
Bad Manners,
MC5,
Brand Nubian,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jawbox,
Sarah Menescal,
Howard Jones,
Siglo XX,
The Five Americans,
James White and The Blacks,
Jandek,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Reagan Youth,
Whodini,
MDC,
Nirvana,
Moby Grape,
The Victims,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jesper Dahlback,
Piero Umiliani,
Cheater Slicks,
Hasil Adkins,
Tommy Roe,
Sound Behaviour,
Fort Wilson Riot,
L. Decosne,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Sheep,
Can,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Essential Logic,
Mission of Burma,
Jerry's Kids,
Blossom Toes,
Glenn Branca,
the Fania All-Stars,
David Bowie,
Robert Hood,
The Selecter,
Circle Jerks,
Cymande,
Albert Ayler,
Spoonie Gee,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.