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 Egypt 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Mad Mike to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rekid,
Pulsallama,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Saccharine Trust,
Monolake,
Simply Red,
The Music Machine,
Roger Hodgson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tom Boy,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pierre Henry,
Lungfish,
Anakelly,
The Moleskins,
Black Flag,
The Raincoats,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Move,
Warsaw,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Peter & Gordon,
Half Japanese,
R.M.O.,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eric Dolphy,
The Young Rascals,
Peter and Kerry,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pagans,
Scion,
John Cale,
Los Fastidios,
Mantronix,
Sexual Harrassment,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Fuzztones,
Youth Brigade,
Ohio Players,
Jawbox,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Knickerbockers,
Cecil Taylor,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cybotron,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lightning Bolt,
James White and The Blacks,
Black Sheep,
The Fugs,
Soul II Soul,
Radio Birdman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
New Order,
Deakin,
the Swans,
Jeff Lynne,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.