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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Hoover to the dance 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Alison Limerick,
the Slits,
The United States of America,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Anakelly,
kango's stein massive,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Young Rascals,
The New Christs,
Sixth Finger,
the Normal,
Vladislav Delay,
The Offenders,
Don Cherry,
Avey Tare,
Stiv Bators,
Sonny Sharrock,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scrapy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fad Gadget,
Kas Product,
The Vogues,
Janne Schatter,
Mark Hollis,
Bauhaus,
Mad Mike,
Essential Logic,
Big Daddy Kane,
Agent Orange,
Funkadelic,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Real Kids,
The Birthday Party,
Judy Mowatt,
The Walker Brothers,
Lower 48,
Sun City Girls,
X-102,
The Blues Magoos,
The Selecter,
Cymande,
Max Romeo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kayak,
Albert Ayler,
Moebius,
Sound Behaviour,
Sister Nancy,
Jacques Brel,
Y Pants,
The Neon Judgement,
Smog,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kenny Larkin,
Skarface,
John Lydon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.