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 Zimbabwe and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Soft Cell to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
The New Christs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Divine Comedy,
Skarface,
Rod Modell,
Television Personalities,
ABBA,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Standells,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Slits,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Khruangbin,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Flag,
Nik Kershaw,
The Tremeloes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nico,
Jandek,
Organ,
Infiniti,
Reagan Youth,
Nils Olav,
John Holt,
Boz Scaggs,
CMW,
Joe Smooth,
Hashim,
Sonic Youth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Cameo,
a-ha,
JFA,
Susan Cadogan,
Franke,
Godley & Creme,
Arcadia,
Pierre Henry,
Graham Central Station,
Brass Construction,
Bobby Womack,
Sister Nancy,
Robert Hood,
Joy Division,
Cheater Slicks,
Rosa Yemen,
Aloha Tigers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eric Dolphy,
Young Marble Giants,
Joensuu 1685,
Electric Prunes,
D'Angelo,
Banda Bassotti,
Index,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.