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 Luxembourg and from London.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Crash Course in Science to the jazz 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Panda Bear,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pole,
Sound Behaviour,
Warren Ellis,
New Age Steppers,
L. Decosne,
Lindisfarne,
World's Most,
Malaria!,
Gastr Del Sol,
Derrick Morgan,
Main Source,
The Fortunes,
The Associates,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jimmy McGriff,
Parry Music,
Bush Tetras,
Underground Resistance,
Blake Baxter,
Ken Boothe,
The Blackbyrds,
The Techniques,
The Selecter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Happenings,
Wasted Youth,
Ronnie Foster,
Althea and Donna,
Lower 48,
Rotary Connection,
The Saints,
Ornette Coleman,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Stooges,
The American Breed,
Ten City,
Peter & Gordon,
Judy Mowatt,
MDC,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Janne Schatter,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Smoke,
Boz Scaggs,
Johnny Clarke,
Kayak,
Aswad,
Sonic Youth,
Traffic Nightmare,
Peter and Kerry,
Oblivians,
The Pop Group,
The Standells,
The Victims,
Qualms,
Organ,
Duran Duran,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.