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 Tunisia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Judy Mowatt to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Zero Boys,
The Skatalites,
David McCallum,
Scion,
Vladislav Delay,
Los Fastidios,
Tubeway Army,
Mission of Burma,
The Cure,
The Mighty Diamonds,
D'Angelo,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marvin Gaye,
David Axelrod,
Spoonie Gee,
Matthew Halsall,
Letta Mbulu,
Franke,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eddi Front,
Flipper,
Magma,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
R.M.O.,
Dead Boys,
Duran Duran,
Robert Wyatt,
Mr. Review,
Mark Hollis,
Au Pairs,
Flash Fearless,
Aswad,
Lee Hazlewood,
June Days,
Qualms,
James White and The Blacks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Kinks,
Smog,
Rod Modell,
Outsiders,
Pulsallama,
Kenny Larkin,
Patti Smith,
Minny Pops,
The Vogues,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Drexciya,
Pussy Galore,
The Techniques,
The Index,
Aloha Tigers,
Kayak,
Liliput,
Eric B and Rakim,
Andrew Hill,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.