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 Bolivia and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 güiro 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 Ossler to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Iggy Pop,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Negative Approach,
The J.B.'s,
Sugar Minott,
Pantytec,
Buzzcocks,
The Wake,
Aloha Tigers,
Grandmaster Flash,
X-101,
Byron Stingily,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
New York Dolls,
James White and The Blacks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Section 25,
The Victims,
Porter Ricks,
Deadbeat,
Bauhaus,
June of 44,
Amon Düül II,
The Count Five,
Alice Coltrane,
Lakeside,
Thompson Twins,
Depeche Mode,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marmalade,
Bobby Sherman,
Make Up,
The Fortunes,
China Crisis,
DNA,
Kerri Chandler,
Tears for Fears,
Eden Ahbez,
Second Layer,
Anthony Braxton,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Michelle Simonal,
Main Source,
Pole,
Sonny Sharrock,
Parry Music,
Lyres,
Spoonie Gee,
Fad Gadget,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Stetsasonic,
Reuben Wilson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cymande,
Marshall Jefferson,
X-102,
Schoolly D,
Robert Hood,
Scrapy,
John Cale,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.