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 Cyprus and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Stockholm.
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 sitar 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 Ronnie Foster to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Little Man,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Thompson Twins,
the Bar-Kays,
Anthony Braxton,
Stetsasonic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fad Gadget,
John Foxx,
These Immortal Souls,
The Selecter,
Roxy Music,
Interpol,
Monks,
the Fania All-Stars,
Metal Thangz,
John Lydon,
Max Romeo,
Dead Boys,
Cecil Taylor,
The Motions,
Nils Olav,
The J.B.'s,
Connie Case,
Deepchord,
David McCallum,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Supertramp,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
the Normal,
MC5,
Q and Not U,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Hasil Adkins,
The Seeds,
Moss Icon,
China Crisis,
The Wake,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker,
Bootsy Collins,
Alice Coltrane,
The Monks,
Amon Düül II,
Dennis Brown,
Suburban Knight,
Todd Terry,
The Associates,
Piero Umiliani,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DJ Style,
Mark Hollis,
Soft Machine,
Alison Limerick,
Mars,
Gang Green,
Gong,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gregory Isaacs,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.