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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar 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 Flamin' Groovies to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Barrington Levy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dual Sessions,
Goldenarms,
Bang On A Can,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Moody Blues,
Gregory Isaacs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gang Green,
The Detroit Cobras,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Half Japanese,
Urselle,
Wire,
Fad Gadget,
The Techniques,
Aaron Thompson,
Grey Daturas,
The Young Rascals,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Donny Hathaway,
Ultravox,
Maleditus Sound,
Section 25,
The Electric Prunes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mission of Burma,
Fifty Foot Hose,
T.S.O.L.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Quantec,
Byron Stingily,
Hardrive,
Charles Mingus,
Massinfluence,
Rosa Yemen,
Cymande,
Scott Walker,
Banda Bassotti,
Ludus,
Toni Rubio,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sex Pistols,
Ornette Coleman,
Sight & Sound,
Colin Newman,
Bobby Byrd,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Sound,
Marc Almond,
The Smiths,
A Certain Ratio,
EPMD,
Max Romeo,
Steve Hackett,
Pierre Henry,
Mr. Review,
Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail.
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.