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 Argentina and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare 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 Sisters of Mercy to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Dead C. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
The Associates,
Niagra,
Newcleus,
Desert Stars,
Shoche,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Blossom Toes,
X-Ray Spex,
Lou Christie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
CMW,
Yaz,
Lalann,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Coltrane,
Flash Fearless,
Traffic Nightmare,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brick,
Quantec,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Remains,
Robert Hood,
Chrome,
the Association,
Heaven 17,
Nico,
Joyce Sims,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sugar Minott,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Wake,
The Knickerbockers,
Sister Nancy,
Scrapy,
New Order,
the Human League,
The Residents,
Con Funk Shun,
Connie Case,
Nation of Ulysses,
Agent Orange,
Tim Buckley,
Saccharine Trust,
The Birthday Party,
Babytalk,
Alton Ellis,
Gabor Szabo,
Vladislav Delay,
Chris Corsano,
Brass Construction,
FM Einheit,
Tubeway Army,
H. Thieme,
Joey Negro,
The Stooges,
The Standells,
Soul II Soul,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.