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 Cuba and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Colin Newman to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Funkadelic,
The Skatalites,
David Axelrod,
Harry Pussy,
X-102,
The Blackbyrds,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Modern Lovers,
Malaria!,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Happenings,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Moleskins,
Eric Dolphy,
Kayak,
Bronski Beat,
The Beau Brummels,
Yazoo,
The Residents,
Camberwell Now,
Section 25,
Hot Snakes,
Slick Rick,
Dual Sessions,
Kas Product,
Mars,
The Gap Band,
AZ,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Negative Approach,
Lyres,
Nick Fraelich,
DJ Sneak,
Hashim,
the Fania All-Stars,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ice-T,
Soulsonic Force,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
These Immortal Souls,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bootsy Collins,
Half Japanese,
Jacob Miller,
Davy DMX,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Popol Vuh,
Ludus,
Ronnie Foster,
Eurythmics,
One Last Wish,
Kurtis Blow,
Qualms,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
48th St. Collective,
Bauhaus,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bush Tetras,
Eric B and Rakim,
Barbara Tucker,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.