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 Libya and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 Shanghai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Procol Harum to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
Banda Bassotti,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Toni Rubio,
Derrick Morgan,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Isaac Hayes,
The Neon Judgement,
Essential Logic,
The Angels of Light,
Danielle Patucci,
Roxy Music,
The Grass Roots,
AZ,
Rekid,
Animal Collective,
The Toasters,
The Smiths,
The Evens,
Gichy Dan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rufus Thomas,
Second Layer,
Nico,
Arcadia,
The Remains,
Alison Limerick,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Moby Grape,
New Order,
Swans,
Lebanon Hanover,
Zapp,
Vainqueur,
Marmalade,
Roy Ayers,
CMW,
Altered Images,
Yazoo,
The Associates,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Slave,
Procol Harum,
Barclay James Harvest,
Infiniti,
Bad Manners,
Tubeway Army,
Reagan Youth,
Nils Olav,
E-Dancer,
Freddie Wadling,
Eric Dolphy,
Joe Smooth,
Dave Gahan,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rod Modell,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scratch Acid,
Michelle Simonal,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.