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 Guinea-Bissau and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 clarinet 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 Talk Talk 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 The Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Half Japanese,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Moleskins,
Mantronix,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Henry Cow,
Symarip,
Chrome,
Hashim,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cowsills,
Dave Gahan,
Wasted Youth,
AZ,
cv313,
Ohio Players,
D'Angelo,
Godley & Creme,
Rakim,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pharoah Sanders,
Funkadelic,
John Cale,
The Skatalites,
Nico,
Dorothy Ashby,
Minutemen,
Icehouse,
Delta 5,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gabor Szabo,
Minnie Riperton,
The Victims,
The Sound,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nirvana,
Gichy Dan,
Slave,
Panda Bear,
Hot Snakes,
FM Einheit,
Porter Ricks,
The Walker Brothers,
Peter and Kerry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
U.S. Maple,
The Tremeloes,
The Trojans,
The Blues Magoos,
Unwound,
Steve Hackett,
Monolake,
The Star Department,
New Age Steppers,
The Names,
Tropical Tobacco,
Harmonia,
June Days,
the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays.
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.