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 Jordan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Association to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ludus,
JFA,
Erasure,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lou Christie,
Laurel Aitken,
Kas Product,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
48th St. Collective,
Eve St. Jones,
OOIOO,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fugazi,
Sonic Youth,
Basic Channel,
Gabor Szabo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pharoah Sanders,
Blossom Toes,
Talk Talk,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bobby Womack,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Cramps,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Franke,
Buzzcocks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Visage,
Eli Mardock,
X-101,
Dual Sessions,
Fear,
Matthew Halsall,
Dave Gahan,
Television,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q65,
Eden Ahbez,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Intrusion,
Pere Ubu,
Motorama,
PIL,
Joyce Sims,
Oneida,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quantec,
Yellowson,
Mary Jane Girls,
Aural Exciters,
ABBA,
Lucky Dragons,
The Detroit Cobras,
Loose Ends,
Neu!,
Guru Guru,
Joe Smooth,
Michelle Simonal,
Lyres, Lyres, Lyres, Lyres.
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.