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 Nepal and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kaleidoscope to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Young Marble Giants,
Popol Vuh,
The Fortunes,
Boredoms,
Metal Thangz,
Bad Manners,
Deadbeat,
Tim Buckley,
The Victims,
Camouflage,
Vainqueur,
Darondo,
Thee Headcoats,
X-Ray Spex,
Kool Moe Dee,
Barrington Levy,
Dennis Brown,
The Blues Magoos,
Negative Approach,
Harmonia,
Essential Logic,
Soulsonic Force,
Groovy Waters,
Agitation Free,
Tom Boy,
Easy Going,
Q65,
Royal Trux,
Sandy B,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
48th St. Collective,
Thompson Twins,
Mandrill,
Hasil Adkins,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fall,
Quando Quango,
Neu!,
Inner City,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Anakelly,
Hashim,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Outsiders,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rekid,
Supertramp,
Icehouse,
Erykah Badu,
Second Layer,
Sam Rivers,
The Electric Prunes,
Silicon Teens,
The Grass Roots,
Leonard Cohen,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cybotron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Judy Mowatt,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.