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 Mongolia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 oboe 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 Scott Walker to the jazz 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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Gladiators,
Yazoo,
Cymande,
Anthony Braxton,
New Age Steppers,
Schoolly D,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Nick Fraelich,
Ponytail,
Judy Mowatt,
Flipper,
The Walker Brothers,
Andrew Hill,
Fear,
The Fall,
Bill Near,
Joy Division,
DNA,
EPMD,
Peter and Kerry,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eden Ahbez,
Motorama,
Easy Going,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Colin Newman,
Crispy Ambulance,
Das Ding,
Bootsy Collins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Slackers,
Stereo Dub,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arthur Verocai,
The Moody Blues,
The Music Machine,
Curtis Mayfield,
Circle Jerks,
This Heat,
the Normal,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Offenders,
Robert Wyatt,
The Dead C,
the Slits,
June of 44,
The Buckinghams,
Average White Band,
Lalann,
Rosa Yemen,
Bush Tetras,
Lou Reed,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Country Teasers,
The Invisible,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.