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 Portugal and from Manila.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 Hasil Adkins to the electroclash 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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Count Five,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Basic Channel,
Talk Talk,
Amon Düül,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lebanon Hanover,
Icehouse,
the Human League,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
New Order,
Henry Cow,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Last Poets,
Scion,
Dual Sessions,
The Leaves,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Zeros,
Cluster,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lower 48,
Motorama,
B.T. Express,
The Names,
Minnie Riperton,
Boredoms,
ABBA,
Quando Quango,
Gang of Four,
E-Dancer,
John Lydon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
cv313,
Dave Gahan,
Alison Limerick,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Martian,
Hot Snakes,
Jandek,
Lee Hazlewood,
Anakelly,
The Moleskins,
The Music Machine,
The Fortunes,
Funky Four + One,
CMW,
FM Einheit,
Derrick May,
David McCallum,
Soul II Soul,
Animal Collective,
Delta 5,
These Immortal Souls,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lindisfarne,
Public Enemy,
Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson.
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.