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 Morocco and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 clarinet 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 FM Einheit to the disco 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Model 500,
DJ Style,
Neil Young,
Eli Mardock,
Los Fastidios,
The Doors,
cv313,
The Names,
Michelle Simonal,
Cymande,
The Techniques,
Bobby Womack,
Kas Product,
David Axelrod,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Godley & Creme,
Kerrie Biddell,
Unwound,
Buzzcocks,
Byron Stingily,
Todd Terry,
Matthew Halsall,
The Fugs,
This Heat,
Youth Brigade,
Masters at Work,
L. Decosne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
D'Angelo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
June Days,
China Crisis,
Amon Düül,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Minor Threat,
Fear,
Underground Resistance,
Amazonics,
Rosa Yemen,
Bauhaus,
Agent Orange,
a-ha,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Motorama,
the Soft Cell,
Fat Boys,
Robert Görl,
Severed Heads,
The Toasters,
The Moleskins,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sarah Menescal,
Pulsallama,
the Human League,
the Sonics,
Zapp,
The Modern Lovers,
Procol Harum,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.