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 Latvia and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blues Magoos 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Suicide,
Peter & Gordon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moss Icon,
Bauhaus,
Cymande,
Underground Resistance,
Monolake,
The Names,
Heaven 17,
Sun Ra,
Lower 48,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soulsonic Force,
Sonny Sharrock,
Piero Umiliani,
Wings,
Eli Mardock,
Con Funk Shun,
Tom Boy,
Infiniti,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Juan Atkins,
Unwound,
Easy Going,
Amon Düül,
Scion,
Black Moon,
Roy Ayers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Radio Birdman,
John Coltrane,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dark Day,
LL Cool J,
The Gladiators,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Connie Case,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Smoke,
Fela Kuti,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Quantec,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radiohead,
the Human League,
Visage,
Grauzone,
Procol Harum,
Accadde A,
The Zeros,
This Heat,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Joyce Sims,
Cecil Taylor,
Deadbeat,
The Dead C,
Gerry Rafferty,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.