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 Botswana and from Beijing.
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 Philadelphia and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord 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 Yellowson to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Machine,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
X-102,
Morten Harket,
Echospace,
Arthur Verocai,
The Fall,
Spandau Ballet,
Scion,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
H. Thieme,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Public Enemy,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moody Blues,
This Heat,
Unrelated Segments,
R.M.O.,
Neil Young,
Tres Demented,
Main Source,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Cowsills,
Rufus Thomas,
Grey Daturas,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Oneida,
Sun Ra,
Tears for Fears,
Franke,
Skriet,
CMW,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Popol Vuh,
D'Angelo,
The Fire Engines,
Sexual Harrassment,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Au Pairs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Zeros,
Negative Approach,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Japan,
The Skatalites,
Marine Girls,
Index,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bobby Sherman,
Interpol,
Rotary Connection,
The Wake,
James White and The Blacks,
Buzzcocks,
John Holt,
Thompson Twins,
Ultimate Spinach,
Audionom,
Agent Orange,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.