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 Austria and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Hashim to the grunge 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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacques Brel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Charles Mingus,
Connie Case,
Erasure,
Joe Smooth,
Robert Görl,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Von Mondo,
The Trojans,
LL Cool J,
Public Image Ltd.,
Moby Grape,
Aural Exciters,
Jerry's Kids,
Dennis Brown,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Iggy Pop,
Derrick May,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dual Sessions,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gabor Szabo,
Clear Light,
Funky Four + One,
Ludus,
Eden Ahbez,
The Associates,
Josef K,
Glenn Branca,
Rites of Spring,
Easy Going,
Todd Terry,
The Cramps,
Sixth Finger,
Gastr Del Sol,
Soul II Soul,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nils Olav,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Skaos,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tears for Fears,
Lower 48,
Bauhaus,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Knickerbockers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Warsaw,
Banda Bassotti,
Cluster,
Ossler,
The Offenders,
Mark Hollis,
In Retrospect,
Boogie Down Productions,
Basic Channel,
Liliput,
The Black Dice,
Blancmange,
Hashim,
Stiv Bators,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.