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 Tuvalu 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Gories to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heaven 17,
Depeche Mode,
Piero Umiliani,
Cecil Taylor,
Wolf Eyes,
Sun City Girls,
Janne Schatter,
Gong,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Prince Buster,
Roy Ayers,
Amon Düül II,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Junior Murvin,
Jeff Mills,
Robert Wyatt,
The Associates,
Pole,
Iggy Pop,
Cameo,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jerry's Kids,
Black Moon,
Pantytec,
Drexciya,
Eric Dolphy,
Television Personalities,
The Black Dice,
Grey Daturas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
David Axelrod,
New Age Steppers,
Ohio Players,
Neil Young,
Letta Mbulu,
Eddi Front,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Joe Smooth,
Negative Approach,
A Certain Ratio,
Oblivians,
Maleditus Sound,
Mary Jane Girls,
Deepchord,
The Remains,
Matthew Bourne,
Vainqueur,
The Fall,
Graham Central Station,
Donald Byrd,
The Monochrome Set,
Qualms,
Darondo,
Scrapy,
James White and The Blacks,
Carl Craig,
Main Source,
Sandy B,
Sarah Menescal,
Agitation Free,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.