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 Tuvalu and from Lagos.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pole to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Ken Boothe,
Zero Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
The Moleskins,
Slave,
Darondo,
Warren Ellis,
Bad Manners,
The Five Americans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Quantec,
The J.B.'s,
Pulsallama,
Pharoah Sanders,
Black Moon,
The Gap Band,
Ponytail,
Desert Stars,
Ultra Naté,
Jimmy McGriff,
K-Klass,
The Electric Prunes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
David Axelrod,
Parry Music,
Tears for Fears,
Bobby Sherman,
Brick,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Iggy Pop,
Harpers Bizarre,
Trumans Water,
JFA,
Hashim,
The Offenders,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gang Starr,
Traffic Nightmare,
Alphaville,
KRS-One,
Spandau Ballet,
Moby Grape,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Invisible,
Lebanon Hanover,
Public Enemy,
Josef K,
Supertramp,
Deakin,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Victims,
Nils Olav,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marine Girls,
Aaron Thompson,
Spoonie Gee,
Basic Channel,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Outsiders,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.