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 Greece and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Yusef Lateef to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Chrome,
Girls At Our Best!,
Television Personalities,
Agent Orange,
Soul II Soul,
Blancmange,
Pet Shop Boys,
Neil Young,
Can,
Sonny Sharrock,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Piero Umiliani,
Bobby Womack,
Schoolly D,
Pylon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Aural Exciters,
Dawn Penn,
Liliput,
The Happenings,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gang of Four,
Jawbox,
Godley & Creme,
Sight & Sound,
Roxette,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Altered Images,
Scratch Acid,
Ituana,
Dead Boys,
Josef K,
Silicon Teens,
Underground Resistance,
the Swans,
The Pop Group,
Sarah Menescal,
Pantytec,
The Young Rascals,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dennis Brown,
Dual Sessions,
Urselle,
Ossler,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fear,
Darondo,
The Fall,
Eric Dolphy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Avey Tare,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Sound,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Tremeloes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bang On A Can,
Kerri Chandler,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.