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 Antigua and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sällskapet to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
cv313,
One Last Wish,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Doobie Brothers,
D'Angelo,
Fluxion,
Gang Starr,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camouflage,
The Residents,
The Mummies,
Archie Shepp,
Eric B and Rakim,
Johnny Osbourne,
Brand Nubian,
Flash Fearless,
The Durutti Column,
Circle Jerks,
Jandek,
Althea and Donna,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Radio Birdman,
the Soft Cell,
Joe Smooth,
Sight & Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
Delon & Dalcan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
John Cale,
Boz Scaggs,
Q65,
Derrick Morgan,
Quantec,
Sam Rivers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Buzzcocks,
X-102,
Rod Modell,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Blues Magoos,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Maurizio,
Scan 7,
The Pop Group,
Moby Grape,
The Slackers,
Reuben Wilson,
Jeff Lynne,
Joey Negro,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Curtis Mayfield,
Avey Tare,
Royal Trux,
The Evens,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sun City Girls,
Bronski Beat,
The Smoke,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.