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 Slovenia and from Taipei.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Alton Ellis to the disco 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Fad Gadget,
Delta 5,
Charles Mingus,
Byron Stingily,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Von Mondo,
Barclay James Harvest,
Peter and Kerry,
Supertramp,
Adolescents,
The Offenders,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ice-T,
Mantronix,
Ultravox,
Warsaw,
Nas,
K-Klass,
Y Pants,
Black Pus,
The Mojo Men,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eddi Front,
The Raincoats,
Dual Sessions,
Pere Ubu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Shadows of Knight,
Janne Schatter,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Faust,
Saccharine Trust,
The J.B.'s,
Tim Buckley,
The Electric Prunes,
Funkadelic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Pop Group,
Reuben Wilson,
Mission of Burma,
Nils Olav,
Drexciya,
Tropical Tobacco,
T.S.O.L.,
Scratch Acid,
Quando Quango,
cv313,
Loose Ends,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Banda Bassotti,
Ludus,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dorothy Ashby,
New Order,
Connie Case,
Mary Jane Girls,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Cal Tjader,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.