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 Korea South and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 organ 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 Skatalites to the disco 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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Excepter,
K-Klass,
Index,
World's Most,
David McCallum,
Chris & Cosey,
Hashim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Amon Düül II,
Skarface,
One Last Wish,
Banda Bassotti,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joe Finger,
The Music Machine,
Au Pairs,
Neil Young,
Scientists,
Basic Channel,
Y Pants,
the Fania All-Stars,
Max Romeo,
Peter and Kerry,
The Detroit Cobras,
Massinfluence,
cv313,
Soulsonic Force,
Johnny Clarke,
Moebius,
The Techniques,
Iggy Pop,
Electric Prunes,
Crime,
Lindisfarne,
Al Stewart,
Brothers Johnson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Absolute Body Control,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tears for Fears,
The Monks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Oneida,
Graham Central Station,
Todd Terry,
Pulsallama,
Connie Case,
Dark Day,
Lalann,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nas,
The Seeds,
Rhythm & Sound,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Young Marble Giants,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Moby Grape,
Vainqueur,
Michelle Simonal,
X-Ray Spex,
Cybotron,
the Normal,
Guru Guru,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.